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a kennedy

(29,707 posts) Tue May 7, 2019, 10:52 PM May 2019

To make a mountain out of a mouse??? Remember that?? Just heard it again tonight

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To make a mountain out of a mouse??? Remember that?? Just heard it again tonight (Original Post) a kennedy May 2019 OP

That's just grasping at straws SCantiGOP May 2019 #1

Could be a Russian saying. Cracklin Charlie May 2019 #2

A few days ago someone was nice enough to explain it to me lunatica May 2019 #3

SCantiGOP

(13,873 posts)

1. That's just grasping at straws

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Tue May 7, 2019, 11:17 PM

May 2019

That broke the camel’s neck.

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)

2. Could be a Russian saying.

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Tue May 7, 2019, 11:51 PM

May 2019

Does anyone know?

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

3. A few days ago someone was nice enough to explain it to me

Reply to Cracklin Charlie (Reply #2)

Tue May 7, 2019, 11:55 PM

May 2019

The mountain is big and imposing but turns out to be only a mouse. It’s like the opposite of making a mountain out of a molehill. It’s the mountain turning out to be a molehill.

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