Definition of molehill
: a little mound or ridge of earth pushed up by a mole
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The story hasn’t changed so much as it’s gone from molehill to mountain, snowball to boulder.
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The Democratic counter is that the memo is a one-sided partisan summary that takes investigative actions out of context in order to make mountains out of molehills.
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But not only that, let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee; let freedom ring from every hill and molehill in Mississippi - from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
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Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.
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The current Tory front bench is a row of exhausted molehills.
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And Spicer appears to be making Mount Kilimanjaro out of a molehill.
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At most moments, 312 million are not listening to excitable broadcasters making mountains of significance out of molehills of political effluvia.
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There are too many rumors, too many gossip mongers and too many mountains of speculative chatter about frivolous molehills.
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First Known Use of molehill
15th century
MOLEHILL Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of molehill for English Language Learners
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: a small pile of dirt that is pushed up by a mole when it digs tunnels underground
MOLEHILL Defined for Kids
Definition of molehill for Students
: a little ridge of dirt pushed up by a mole as it burrows underground
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