Examples of 'out of all proportion' in a sentence
Meaning of "out of all proportion"
This phrase is used to describe a situation, reaction, or event that is exaggerated or blown out of proportion. It suggests that the intensity, magnitude, or significance of something is far greater than it should be. For example, 'The media coverage of the scandal was blown out of all proportion.' It highlights the excessive attention or emphasis given to a particular issue
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out of all proportion
You build things up out of all proportion.
Expenses out of all proportion to your avowed income.
Probably blown this out of all proportion.
It is out of all proportion to subject minors to temporary custody.
My haemorrhoids had grown out of all proportion.
Almost out of all proportion.
This is distorting the issue out of all proportion.
The risk is out of all proportion to the price.
Every symptom becomes blown out of all proportion.
The means were out of all proportion with the objective sought.
The media are blowing it out of all proportion.
It is out of all proportion.
Breasts have been blown out of all proportion.
It is truly out of all proportion for a civilized nation to do something like this.
You are blowing this out of all proportion.
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It was out of all proportion to anything one had ever been accustomed to before.
I think it got blown out of all proportion.
This is out of all proportion with the relative importance of these two neighbouring regions.
His determination is out of all proportion to his size.
The consequence of this is that regulation is allowed to expand out of all proportion.
Army violence out of all proportion vs civilians.
A complete ban on such advertising would be out of all proportion.
She blew it out of all proportion.
To publish here all reports in press would be out of all proportion.
Our fear is out of all proportion.
The issue of arbitrary disappearances of civilians had been blown up out of all proportion.
The variables are out of all proportion to the constants.
He has sought to blow up this matter out of all proportion.
Its power is out of all proportion to its size.
Little things that get blown up out of all proportion.
This is out of all proportion.
Outward it looks but sees the atom out of all proportion.
That is out of all proportion.
Thus Perejaume also broadened the principle of collage out of all proportion.
Its influence was out of all proportion to its size.
Quarrels about the Third World were getting blown out of all proportion.
Their significance is out of all proportion to their numbers.
Out of all proportion to the heat or energy it's consuming.
They blew the case out of all proportion.
Has got blown out of all proportion inside your gorgeous little head.
These things get blown out of all proportion.
It is really out of all proportion to the town 's size and population!
Press blew that story up out of all proportion.
He was disappointed out of all proportion to what he had lost.
He 's exaggerating this whole business out of all proportion.
I swell up out of all proportion.
The administration labeled them "inaccurate and out of all proportion.
The means would be out of all proportion to the ends.
Cause if you had not, my response would be out of all proportion.
Income disparities grew out of all proportion without any justification.
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