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English translation: after being blown up out of all proportion

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French term or phrase:	montée en épingle
English translation:	after being blown up out of all proportion
Entered by:	suezen

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16:42 Sep 7, 2005

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Agriculture

French term or phrase: montée en épingle

This is about a GM crop controversy:

Après avoir été montée en épingle au printemps 2004, la controverse est retombée comme un soufflet quelques mois plus tard

Paul Morris KudoZ activity Questions: 228 (1 open) (4 without valid answers) (27 closed without grading) Answers: 0
Local time: 16:52

after being blown up out of all proportion

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suezen
Local time: 17:52

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sounds good to me! Thanks a lot
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3 +8

after being blown up out of all proportion

suezen

after all the hype in 2004

xxxCMJ_Trans

overbown

olganet

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peer agreement (net): +8

montée en épingle

after being blown up out of all proportion

Explanation:
for example

suezen
Local time: 17:52
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 55

Grading comment

sounds good to me! Thanks a lot

1 hr confidence:

montée en épingle overbown

Explanation:
the controversy is overblown

short and simple, multiple Google hits

...that **the fear is overblown**. In fact, a close look at the GM crop story suggests
... The controversy had devastating consequences for the GM crop industry. ...
cms.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/phil/nano/schuler.pdf

At times the controversy is overblown, sometimes steering toward national book-burning mania depending on what papers you read or news shows you watch, ...
www.yeswonder.com/ViewFeatures.asp?ArticleID=2221

AgBioView Newsletter on Agricultural Biotechnology
... 'Contamination' Fears Vastly Overblown; 'Invasion' That Never Was contained genes from GM crops (see Nature backtracks over GM maize controversy). ...
www.agbioworld.org/newsletter_wm/ index.php?caseid=archive&newsid=2398

Either they wanted to reaffirm their belief, see what the overblown controversy was all about or to find something that they felt was missing in their lives ...
www.thetriangle.org/news/2004/03/12/EdOp/ passion.Of.The.Christ.Refreshing.Change.Of.Pace-632518.shtml

I do, however, expect absurd publicity free by news organizations and desperate attempts to overblow any sort of controversy to drum up interest. ...
www.worldmagblog.com/blog/archives/005874.html

olganet
Local time: 11:52
Native speaker of:

Russian

4 hrs confidence:

after all the hype in 2004

Explanation:
the controversy deflated like a limp balloon

xxxCMJ_Trans
Local time: 17:52
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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