尺水丈波
      Explanation: Metaphor to speak exaggerated, untrue.
      Usage: Contraction type; as predicate; metaphor for big storm caused minor
      Source: Tangmeng rural "gentlemen do not have slander destroyed by Yu Yushi gift of poetry to" one: "Know a foot of water, higher waves day and night."
  • Thesaurus:  stir up trouble, control the forces of nature with the abilty to summon wind and rain, stir up trouble, to incur unnecessary trouble, to fan the flame