make a meal of | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,transitive)To spend moretimeandenergyon some task than itwarrants; to make something overlycomplicated; tomake a big thing out of.1997, Alison Aprhys,Careers in Publishing and Bookselling: How to Get the Job You Want‎[1], Hale & Iremonger,→ISBN, page191:Some people canmake a mealoutofthe simplest task. If you give it to a busy person, they don’t have time to muck around on the edges and worry about it — they’ll just do it.a.2004, Kate Williams,Using Information for Decision Making, Second edition, Elsevier, published2004,→ISBN,page53:They both looked good – I would have been happy with either version. There was no point inmaking a meal ofthe decision, so I just picked up the one which was nearest to me on the desk and said, ‘We’ll go with this one.’2008, Julia Gregson,East of the Sun, Simon and Schuster, published2009,→ISBN:page 131: And if he preferred Viva, fine. She wasn't going tomake a meal ofit or even give them the satisfaction of a scene.page 524:Make it quick and painless, she'd told herself,don'tmake a meal ofit.2010November 3, Andrew Barker, “Morning Glory (review)”, inVariety:Ford's character is a bit one-note, and his gravelly intonation suggests a drunken poet more than a respected newsman, yet hemakes a meal ofthe role all the same, and his pronunciation of the word "frittata" may well be the film's high point.; Toeatsomething as a meal.Don't walk near the tiger: it'llmake a meal ofyou.

Examples:

EN: No need to make a meal of it.
ES: No hace falta hacer ningún drama.
EN: Men who'd make a meal of you.
ES: Hombres que podrian molerte a palos.
EN: I'm afraid they'll make a meal of that.
ES: - Sí. Me temo que sacarán tajada de eso.
EN: The Mahars will make a meal of us.
ES: Seremos el banquete de los mahares.
EN: Listen, we want to eat! We don't want to make a meal of the issues.
ES: Nosotros queremos comer, no atracarnos de discusiones.
EN: No doubt the Morlox will make a meal of her.
ES: Sin duda, el Morlox se la comerá.
EN: All the time their parents remain above them, to defend them against anything that might make a meal of them.
ES: Todo el tiempo sus padres han permanecido cerca, para defenderlos de cualquiera que quisiera hacer de ellos un bocadillo.
EN: What don't you like about a dead funny guy who's rich, famous, and doesn't make a meal of it?
ES: ¿Qué es lo que no te gusta de ese tipo tan divertido, tan famoso, que no presume de ello?
EN: Oh, trust old Charles to make a meal of it
ES: Oh, puedes confiar en el viejo Charles para hacer un escándalo.
EN: These starfish make a meal of seal faeces.
ES: Esta estrella de mar convierte en alimento las heces de las focas.
EN: I suppose I have emotions but I don't make a meal of them.
ES: Supongo que tengo sentimientos pero no me preocupan mucho.
EN: It was big enough to make a meal of an unwary Obdurodon.
ES: Era lo suficientemente grande como para alimentarse de un Obdurodon descuidado.
EN: True... but i can't help these people if they let the magog make a meal of them.
ES: es verdad... pero no puedo ayudar a esta gente si dejan que los Magog hagan una comida con ellos.
EN: He didn't go after her to make a meal of this.
ES: No fue tras ella para ser culpado por esto.
EN: Come on. Don't make a meal of it.
ES: Vamos, no desperdicies más tiempo.

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