blow out of proportion

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blow out of proportion (third-person singular simple present blows out of proportion, present participle blowing out of proportion, simple past blew out of proportion, past participle blown out of proportion)

  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.
    I don’t think we need to blow it out of proportion. There’s a problem, and we should fix it.

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