| 释义 | make a meal (out) of somethingidiomUKdisapproving
 to spend more time or energy doing something than is necessary: 对…小题大做
 I only asked for a summary of the main points but she's making a real meal out of it.我只要个提纲,可是她弄得过于详细。
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Exaggerating & playing down
 bloviate
 blow something out of proportionidiom
 cartoonish
 cartoonishly
 catastrophize
 fulsome
 go overboardidiom
 inflated
 make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
 make much of somethingidiom
 make something of something/someone
 meal
 mildly
 minimization
 OTT
 over-egg
 protest too muchidiom
 romanticize
 underplay
 underrate
 
 
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