Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill

• This everyday expression can be interpreted in two ways. Firstly, not to exaggerate minor issues out of all proportion. Secondly, that rumours often turn out to be false.
• The expression comes from one of Aesop's Fables, ‘The Mountain that went into Labour’. Aesop lived between c. 620-560 BCE.

Aesop’s Fable ‘The Mountain that went into labour’

• A Mountain went into labour and started groaning loudly. Everybody in the country started to expect a great birth.
• However, despite all the uproar, the mountain finally gave birth to a mouse.
• The moral of the fable is that rumours often turn out to be false.