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blow out of proportion

Verb

idiomatic transitive

(transitive, idiomatic) To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.

Japanese Meaning

大げさに言う / 誇張する / 過剰に反応する / 過大評価する

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She tends to blow out of proportion any minor mistake, making it seem catastrophic.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は些細なミスを大げさに扱い、それをまるで壊滅的な出来事のように見せがちだ。

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blows out of proportion

（ present singular third-person ）

blowing out of proportion

（ participle present ）

blew out of proportion

（ past ）

blown out of proportion

（ participle past ）

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mixed-member proportional

Noun

uncountable

A voting system used in Germany and New Zealand in which voters get two votes, one for a local representative MP and one for a political party, and in which the number of seats that a party gets in parliament is based on the percentage of votes that the party receives.

Japanese Meaning

混合比例代表制 ― 有権者が地方の代表（小選挙区の候補者）と政党に票を投じ、政党の得票率に基づいて議席が割り当てられる選挙制度

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New Zealand's adoption of a mixed-member proportional system in the 1990s transformed its parliament by combining local constituency MPs with party-list seats allocated according to each party's share of the vote.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ニュージーランドが1990年代に混合比例代表制を採用したことで、小選挙区で選ばれる議員と各政党の得票率に応じて配分される比例名簿による議席を組み合わせた議会へと変わりました。

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blow out of proportions

Verb

idiomatic nonstandard transitive

(transitive, idiomatic, nonstandard) Synonym of blow out of proportion.

Japanese Meaning

実際の状態を実際以上に誇張する、または大げさに描写することを意味する。 / 事実や現象を極端に大きく捉え、誤った印象を与える表現を指す。

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It's easy for social media to blow out of proportions a minor mistake.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ソーシャルメディアは些細なミスを誇張しがちだ。

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Related Words

blows out of proportions

（ present singular third-person ）

blowing out of proportions

（ participle present ）

blew out of proportions

（ past ）

blown out of proportions

（ participle past ）

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out of all proportion

Prepositional phrase

alt-of alternative

Alternative form of out of proportion

Japanese Meaning

「out of all proportion」は『out of proportion』の別形表現であり、物事の比率や程度が通常の範囲を逸脱している、極端に不均衡な状態であることを示します。

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The media's coverage of the minor protest was out of all proportion to the event itself.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

小さな抗議に対するメディアの報道は、出来事自体に比べて不釣り合いだった。

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