To make a mosquito into an elephant

Sooo, I’m pretty sure there’s no literal English translation for this (unlike in Arabic), but maybe there’s a proverb or phrase that has the same meaning?

Something like focusing on and exaggerating a previously almost nonexistent thing until it becomes a real problem?

Any ideas?

The animation consists of 18 single pictures that I drew in procreate and fed to an online gif maker. I would have liked to make the movement smoother, with a slower transformation, but it had to be done in half a day so it was quick and dirty work.