大惊小怪
dà​jīng​xiǎo​guài HSK7

to make a fuss

大惊小怪 大驚小怪 dà​jīng​xiǎo​guài
to make a fuss verb
to make a lot of fuss about something that is actually quite common or ordinary; much ado about nothing

别为了丢失一支笔就这样大惊小怪。

bié wèi​le diū​shī yī zhī bǐ jiù zhè​yàng dà​jīng​xiǎo​guài.

Don't make so much fuss over losing a pen.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
6.41 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
1.86 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)