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To blow something out of all proportion >> to make it seem far more important than it really is. Another idiom that says this is to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Push someone over the edge >> to irritate or infuriate someone so much that they lose their temper.
To get in someone's hair >> to be irritating to someone.