mountain out of molehill

HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said in a separate statement that the inspector general found no fault with how the contracts were awarded “despite attempts by some in the media and highly-partisan members of Congress to make a mountain out of molehill.”

HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said in a separate statement that the inspector general found no fault with how the contracts were awarded “despite attempts by some in the media and highly-partisan members of Congress to make a mountain out of molehill.”

They don’t make a mountain out of molehill so much as they erect a new tower of Babel from a grain of sand:

"He certainly made a mountain out of molehill. C'mon, we're gong to waste this much time on the deflation of footballs?"

"Right to the very end she always felt concerned people out there thought she was making a mountain out of molehill."