Multiple choice softskills communication

Making a mountain out of a mole hill

  1. to make a toy mountain

  2. excessively inflate the importance of a trivial matter

  3. necessatitate the importance of the situation

  4. none of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

'Making a mountain out of a molehill' means to exaggerate the importance or difficulty of a minor issue, making a small problem seem much larger than it really is. Option A takes it literally, while option C mentions 'necessatitate' which appears to be a typo and doesn't represent the idiom's meaning of exaggeration.

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