French idioms
What does “En faire tout un fromage” mean?
En faire tout un fromage
Word for word
To make a whole cheese of it
What it really means
To make an enormous drama out of nothing. Used to ask someone to calm down.
How we say it in English
To make a mountain out of a molehill
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