tempest in a teacup

Maldonado’s pet problem may sound like a tempest in a teacup.

This all may be a tempest in a teacup.

My response caused a tempest in a teacup, I discovered the next day at a faculty meeting.

“A tempest in a teacup,” said one cleric, who asked not to be named.

It almost makes ID theft a tempest in a teacup.

"In a nutshell, this whole thing was a tempest in a teacup."

Most stories about sports teams and their ethnic mascots are treated like tempests in a teacup.

Gentlemen," the general said, sitting back in his chair, "it looks like we have a tempest in a teacup.

Bluntly, Rocco, you're making a tempest in a teacup.

Your father named him Tempest in a Teacup, as he's got a small build, but he's full of spirit.

When the trading scandal first broke, Mr Dimon described it as a "tempest in a teacup."

Crush a plastic bottle without laying a finger on it, create a tiny tempest in a teacup, and whip up your own rainstorm.

Tempest In A Teacup (2013)

In "Tempest in a Teacup", it is revealed that Bertram is claustrophobic.

Colloquially the word has come to represent commotion, or any activity or display with bustle and excitement, sometimes ironically in the sense of "a tempest in a teacup".

Ben went on: Whether the problem winds up a tempest in a teacup or Armageddon from the sky, the strategic solution will result from intuition and imagination, properties of human emotion.

The president of Universities UK and head of Kings College London, Rick Trainor, said the controversy sparked by Alison Richard was a "tempest in a teacup".

The regulator said the bank - whose chief executive Jamie Dimon once described the trading problems as a "tempest in a teacup" - had admitted the facts underlying the SEC's charges.

It argues that recent heightened concern over this issue, in part based on surveys of business opinion, needs to be counterbalanced against earlier assessments in the 1980’s of the issue as a tempest in a teacup.

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Friday called the protests in the oil giant a "tempest in a teacup," saying instead of it being a "day of rage" people were demonstrating their love for the king.

Mr Dimon, whose "tempest in a teacup" comment in April 2012 prompted criticism he was underplaying the affair, said in a statement on Thursday the bank "accepted responsibility and acknowledged our mistakes from the start."

It improves your market share, and it lines your pockets." Gail Shister, television columnist for the 'Philadelphia Inquirer', characterized the reaction as "a tempest in a teacup" and "a great election year issue".

Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which lists the NBPP as a hate group, described the conservative media's handling of the case as amounting to a "tempest in a teacup".

Market Insight: Alan Rohrbach – Why QE2 could be just a tempest in a teacup There are upbeat expectations for US “QE2”, writes the president of Chicago capital markets consultants Rohr International.

There are also lesser known or earlier variants, such as tempest in a teacup, storm in a cream bowl, tempest in a glass of water, storm in a wash-hand basin, and storm in a glass of water.