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침소봉대

Pronunciation
침ː소봉대
Part of speech
noun
Vocabulary level
none
Derivative
침소봉대하다

exaggeration; overstatement; magnification

An act of exaggerating in one's description of a small thing or a trivial incident, from its literal meaning of "to call a needle a club".