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English

  1. to make a mountain out of a molehill
  2. to take a minor issue and exaggerate it by adding multiple layers of interpretation and inference, turning it into a serious wrong doing, and then criticizing it heavily

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 指以一啲小事借題發揮，以多層理解、推論將小事講成嚴重惡行，然後大肆批判

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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