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mountains of gold

hàng đống vàng

mountains of debts

hàng đống nợ

to make mountains of molehills

Xem molehill

the mountain has brought forth a mouse

đầu voi đuôi chuột

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N.

Height, elevation, mount, eminence, prominence, peak, alp,tor, summit, No. Eng. and Scots fell, Scots and Irish Englishben: Her favourite sport is climbing mountains.

Heap, pile,stack, mound, accumulation, abundance, mass, Colloq ton(s),heaps, piles, stacks: I have a mountain of laundry to do.

N.

A large natural elevation of the earth's surface risingabruptly from the surrounding level; a large or high and steephill.

A large heap or pile; a huge quantity (a mountain ofwork).

A large surplus stock of a commodity (buttermountain).

Any of severalAustralian eucalypts. mountain chain a connected series ofmountains. mountain goat a white goatlike animal, Oreamnosamericanus, of the Rocky Mountains etc. mountain laurel a N.American shrub, Kalmia latifolia. mountain lion a puma.mountain panther = OUNCE(2). mountain range a line of mountainsconnected by high ground. mountain sickness a sickness causedby the rarefaction of the air at great heights. Mountain TimeUS the standard time of parts of Canada and the US in or nearthe Rocky Mountains. move mountains 1 achieve spectacularresults.

Make every possible effort.

Mountainy adj. [MEf. OF montaigne ult. f. L (as MOUNT(2))]