Don't make a mountain out of a molehill

Meaning: Don't exaggerate small problems.

Origin: English proverb from the 16th century, used by Nicholas Udall in 1548.

Translations

• French: Ne fais pas d'une mouche un éléphant (literally: Don't make a fly into an elephant)
• Spanish: No hagas una montaña de un grano de arena (literally: Don't make a mountain from a grain of sand)
• Japanese: 針小棒大 (Shinshō bōdai) (literally: Making a needle into a stick)

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