17 years ago
coralseachris32

What does it mean that "It is blown out of Proportion?"?

The event was blown out of proportion.
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17 years ago
jkk109
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Means that someone made it out to be much more than it really was.
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17 years ago
nothing
For example: Petty theft - a man walks into a department store to window shop and while there, decides to steel a shirt and watch. He gets caught, arrested, and charged with petty theft. The sentencing judge doesn't like the way the guy looks or his attitude, or maybe the store is also the judge's favorite place to shop too, so he sentences the thief to 5 years in prison, a sentence that is 'way out of proportion' (beyond all reason and necessity) to what the guy actually did. The accused normally would have received probation or similar, but he got a sentence beyond the norm, an excessive overreactin.
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17 years ago
witchfromoz2003
It means that someone has made a mountain out of a molehill
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17 years ago
Ed M
Mountains out of molehills, a lot of soup from only one oyster?
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17 years ago
tracey a
I think it means that the story being told is being exaggerated a bit and is not as important or as relevant as being told.
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17 years ago
Aussieblonde -bundy'd
thought it was kinda obvious, but it means that someone has taken a situation and made it into something more than it was.
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17 years ago
All That
There exagerrating
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