Just a few weeks later, on 29 August, Tesco executives issued their now infamous forecast – the one that exaggerated their likely profits by 25%.
Then there are also many people who I think believe, or have persuaded themselves, that climate change is just another fad, exaggerated by scientists who just want more money for their research, or environmentalists who over-react to small threats or are unrealistic about where their bread is buttered.
The virtues of the single market are greatly exaggerated.
I have many times pointed out that the degree of mess inherited by the coalition was much exaggerated.
That intimacy ended after the tripartite model of economic management – government, business and unions – fatally hit the buffers in the winter of discontent (the piles of rubbish much exaggerated in The Iron Lady movie) and led to the Thatcher counter-revolution of 1979, which culminated in the defeat of Arthur Scargill's foolhardy strategy for the 1983-84 minerstrikeike.
First of all it was generally agreed that the severity of the crisis had been exaggerated by the English-speaking media, who knew little of France and used the news of the French riots as a distraction from their own problems with immigration and immigrants in their own countries.
Lynas counters that he's unable to defend himself from charges he's exaggerated his role due the illegality of the acts he and his associates were complicit in.
Book now Reports of reading's demise at the hands of the internet are greatly exaggerated.
"These are two things I would much have preferred not to have happened, but in Eastleigh the party turned out in strength because the party thought that this was an important occasion and an occasion to show that, like Mark Twain, rumours of our death are grossly exaggerated," he said.
The bravery that is required to be an NHS midwife in 2015 cannot be exaggerated.
He rejected claims that he had exaggerated the scale of the financial crisis facing Britain to justify massive public spending cuts after the committee's chairman, Conservative MP Andrew Tyrie, suggested his claim that Britain had been "on the brink of bankruptcy" was "a bit over the top".
