a storm in a teacup, making a mountain out of a molehill
Não faça uma tempestade em copo d'água, ela só fez um comentário inocente.
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill, she only made an innocent comment.
In Le Curé de Tours, Balzac uses the French une tempête dans un verre d’eau and attributes the comparison with San Marino’s political unrest to Montesquieu. A similar image exists in English as a storm in a teacup.
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