小题大做 xiǎotídàzuò to make a mountain out of a molehill Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 小题大做 小題大做 xiǎotídàzuò to make a mountain out of a molehill To treat a minor matter as a major issue; to make a big fuss over nothing, often implying intentional exaggeration. Originally a term for using a complex writing style meant for the Five Classics on a simpler exam topic from the Four Books. Frequency Movie subtitles 3.01 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.571 per million Cross-References Variant of 小题大作 xiǎotídàzuò Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
小题大做 小題大做 xiǎotídàzuò to make a mountain out of a molehill To treat a minor matter as a major issue; to make a big fuss over nothing, often implying intentional exaggeration. Originally a term for using a complex writing style meant for the Five Classics on a simpler exam topic from the Four Books. Frequency Movie subtitles 3.01 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.571 per million Cross-References Variant of 小题大作 xiǎotídàzuò Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
