Thanks again to everyone who attended a workshop. Well, coming back to Anjala (starring Vimal) one waits with bated breath to see whether the storm in the teacup will die down. Council made a commitment to work with the community throughout this process, and this is the next step. ( The Korea Joongang Daily)ĮASA panic storm in a teacup ( The Bangkok Post)īut unfortunately that’s not where it stops and the millions lost on the stock market are inconsequential when compared to how this will affect the lives of every South African. Clearly, you’re not going to get a real storm going on inside a teacup. Anyway, a storm in a teacup is the idiom. So if you didn’t know the word mug, it’s worth learning that one. “The so-called ‘Ahn wind’ is more than a tempest in a teapot,” said Lee Taek-soo, head of Realmeter. A mug is like a teacup, but taller and has a greater capacity and it doesn’t have a saucer.
( USA Today)ĭrinking my morning coffee and skipping around on Twitter recently I came across an interesting little tempest in a teapot involving Glenn Thrush, Politico’s chief political correspondent. See 102 traveller reviews, 63 candid photos, and great deals for Storm in a Tea Cup, ranked 25 of 105. There have been some hiccups along the way: The $6 billion in losses racked up by the “London whale” - a U.K.-based trader in the bank’s Chief Investment Office - in 2012 raised genuine concerns about even Dimon’s ability to manage an organization of JPMorgan’s complexity (his early qualification of the problem as “a tempest in a teapot” came back to haunt him). Now 110 on Tripadvisor: Storm in a Tea Cup, St Ives. Both of the idioms a tempest in a teapot and a storm in a teacup seem to have originated in Scotland in the early half of the 1800s. A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter. With Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood. The Duke of Ormand, in a letter written in 1678, refers to something that is but a storm in a cream bowl. Storm in a Teacup: Directed by Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville.
‘It wasn't corruption, but it wasn't a storm in a teacup. North American term a tempest in a teapot (see tempest) ‘On the other hand, some of the ‘stories’ that have caused a great deal of excitement are no more than a storm in a teacup.’. in the writings of Cicero, in a phrase that translates as stirring up billows in a ladle. Great outrage or excitement about a trivial matter. The basic sentiment of a tempest in a teapot and a storm in a teacup seems to have originated in 52 B.C.E. Other languages have similar idioms, including the French une tempete dans un verre d’eau, or a storm in a glass of water. A tempest in a teapot is an American idiom, the British equivalent is a storm in a teacup. A tempest in a teapot is a small problem or event that has been blown out of proportion.