The event was blown out of proportion.
2006-07-04 21:14:38 · 7 answers · asked by coralseachris32 1 in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
Means that someone made it out to be much more than it really was.
2006-07-04 21:18:50 · answer #1 · answered by jkk109 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For example: Petty theft - a man walks into a department store to window shop and while there, decides to steel a shirt and watch. He gets caught, arrested, and charged with petty theft. The sentencing judge doesn't like the way the guy looks or his attitude, or maybe the store is also the judge's favorite place to shop too, so he sentences the thief to 5 years in prison, a sentence that is 'way out of proportion' (beyond all reason and necessity) to what the guy actually did. The accused normally would have received probation or similar, but he got a sentence beyond the norm, an excessive overreactin.
2006-07-04 23:47:01 · answer #2 · answered by nothing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that someone has made a mountain out of a molehill
2006-07-11 19:25:36 · answer #3 · answered by witchfromoz2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mountains out of molehills, a lot of soup from only one oyster?
2006-07-11 19:13:24 · answer #4 · answered by Ed M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means that the story being told is being exaggerated a bit and is not as important or as relevant as being told.
2006-07-04 21:38:50 · answer #5 · answered by tracey a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thought it was kinda obvious, but it means that someone has taken a situation and made it into something more than it was.
2006-07-04 21:33:08 · answer #6 · answered by Aussieblonde -bundy'd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There exagerrating
2006-07-04 21:34:19 · answer #7 · answered by All That 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋