A face din țânțar armăsar

Meaning: To exaggerate something enormously.

Language: Romanian

Literally: To make a stallion out of a mosquito

Category: Animals

Origin: A Romanian rhyming image (țânțar/armăsar) of blowing the tiniest thing up into something huge.

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• A tăcea ca porcul în păpușoi — To keep guiltily quiet.
• Pireyi deve yapmak — To blow something tiny out of all proportion.
• الجمل ما يشوف عوجة رقبته — People are blind to their own faults.
• आ बैल मुझे मार — To deliberately invite trouble upon yourself.
• گربه را دم حجله کشتن — To assert authority firmly from the very start.
• จับปลาสองมือ — To chase two goals at once and risk losing both.

More Romanian idioms

• A umbla cu cioara vopsită — To try to deceive people with falsehoods.
• A se face luntre și punte — To do absolutely everything to help.
• A freca menta — To waste time; to loaf around doing nothing useful.
• A-i pica fisa — To finally understand something.
• A se uita ca pisica în calendar — To stare blankly, understanding nothing.
• A tăia frunză la câini — To do pointless work; to idle away the day.

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