tehdä kärpäsestä härkänen

Finnish

Etymology

Härkänen is a diminutive derived from härkä (“ox”) by means of the regular diminutive suffix -nen, but it is only used as part of this idiom.

Idiom

tehdä kärpäsestä härkänen

  1. make a mountain out of a molehill
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