Making a Wine Shop Out of a Raisin

In English, if somebody’s making a big deal out of something that’s really trivial, we might say they’re making a mountain out of a molehill.

And there are other great expressions in other languages. There’s one in Swedish that translates as they’re making a hen out of a feather. Isn’t that nice?

And in Icelandic, you might say, they’re making a camel out of a gnat. A camel out of a gnat. Those both sound like dangerous lab experiments.

Well, here’s one that’s preferable. There’s one in Arabic that translates as, they’re making a wine shop out of a raisin. Oh, a wine shop out of a raisin. That’s a religious experience.

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