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  What it means

  Literally “to make a pitchfork from a needle.” Means to exaggerate a minor issue — the equivalent of “making a mountain out of a molehill.”

  Vocabulary

  • robić — to make / to do
  • igła — needle
  • widły — pitchfork

  Grammar note

  'Z igły' uses the genitive after 'z' (out of). 'Widły' is accusative plural — and a plurale tantum noun (always plural, like scissors).

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