Do you have an English idiom for attaching extra meaning to simple words?

Question

I mean if someone interprets something loosely and adds extra meaning to a word to make things worse.

Answer 1

You could say the person is "reading something into" what you said.
"Don't read so much into it--I just said the dress you were wearing yesterday was beautiful."

Answer 2

If only you could give us a concrete example of what you have on your mind, I guess it'd be easier for us to find out this idiom or word.

Anyway, I can think of a couple of verbs that might possibly apply to the case:

to distort, to debase, to corrupt a word.

Sorry I can't help further.

JC

Answer 3

Yes, at least in the USA. We generally follow words or phrases with profanity or name-calling to add emphasis. For example the following two phrases:

Sit down.

Sit down, bee-otch!

The latter phrase contains an idiomatic phrase to help the listener understand what is intended and to remove unwanted confusion about the wishes of the speaker.

Answer 4

I think you mean a "double entendre" which we borrowed from the French, which is a phrase which can be taken in one perfectly innocent context, and one risque one, like the query, "Would you like to see my pussy?" Is it a cat you're referring to, or what?

Answer 5

"Making a mountain out of a molehill" comes close - that is
extending a concept well beyond what is really there.

Answer 6

If I got you right....The letters added to words are either called "Prefixes" (Before the word), or "Suffixes" (After the word).

Answer 7

hyperbole?

okay, it's not an idiom. hmmm. how about "hot air" or "tall talk"?

Answer 8

Hmm- a "malapropism'?

Answer 9

OVER EXAGGERATING???