battens down the hatches (verb) batten down the hatches: prepare for trouble
Sinonime: aggrandize,
amplify, blow-up,
build up,
color, distend, dramatize,
elaborate,
embellish,
enhance,
enlarge,
expand, falsify, fudge,
heighten, hyperbolize,
lie,
magnify, make federal case, make mountain out of molehill, overdo, overelaborate, overembellish, overemphasize, overestimate, overstate, pad, play up, puff, romanticize, spread on thick,
stretch, stretch the truth, yeast