看绝望的主妇学高频短语: Blow sth out of proportion

Blow sth out of proportion: to cause (something) to become larger than it should be or to be treated as something worse or more important than it really is. If something is blown out of proportion, it is exaggerated and people see it as more serious, worse, etc, than it really is.

中文释义：字面意思是把事情搞得不成比例，Blow sth out of proportion意思是过度夸张地描述某事物，夸大其词，过度渲染。例句：He changed the story and told it way out of proportion.（他把故事改变而且讲得很夸张。）