Timeline for Is there great difference between “Make a mountain out of a molehill” and “Much ado about nothing”?
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| Jun 8, 2013 at 8:09 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Jun 8, 2013 at 4:51 | answer | added | user45658 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 8, 2013 at 3:10 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/343203466879053824 | ||
| Jun 8, 2013 at 2:46 | answer | added | Charlie Brown | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 8, 2013 at 0:36 | comment | added | James Waldby - jwpat7 | Also see What’s the most accurate term for phrases such as “storm in a teacup” and “making mountains out of molehills”?, and "To shoot out of cannon into sparrows", and Are there popular English sayings to express “Big fuss, tiny result”?, | |
| Jun 8, 2013 at 0:08 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | On wikipaedia, where else, the page confirms both idioms have similar meanings. Interestingly it claims:"It is said that the concept traces back to The Bible. Book of Zechariah 4:6-7 states: "For who are you, O great mountain[...]? Before Zerubbabel [...] you shall become a plain [a mere [a]molehill]! And he shall bring forth the finishing gable stone [of the new temple] with loud shoutings of the people, crying, Grace, grace to it!"[9] | |
| Jun 7, 2013 at 23:49 | answer | added | Mitch | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 7, 2013 at 23:42 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |