make a meal (out) of sth
UK disapprovingto spend more time or energy doing something than is necessary:
I only asked for a summary of the main points but she's making a real meal out of it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Exaggerating & playing down
- be stretching it idiom
- blow sth out of proportion idiom
- drama queen
- dramatize
- exaggeration
- lard
- lay
- make much of sth idiom
- make sth of sth
- meal
- over-egg the pudding idiom
- overboard
- overplay
- overstatement
- pad
- pudding
- soft-pedal
- stretch
- stretch the truth idiom
- talk sth down
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