Collaborative works like this demand huge effort, not the least from the editor who, unlike a football manager, cannot assemble the contributors at half-time and throw the teacups around.
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The term "tempest in ateacup" may be a better epithet for the visit.
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It is a storm in ateacup: in terms of international waste disposal, we are talking about microscopic amounts of material.
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It would seem that the process has come a long way forward and this is probably a storm in ateacup.
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It seems to me to be a storm in ateacupabout these business letters.
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I will not say it is a storm in ateacup, but it is rather like one.
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It is a complete storm in ateacup.
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It is, in my view, a storm in ateacup.
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This matter is a storm in ateacup; it is an argument about nothing.
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Secondly, this is a very small matter; it is a storm in ateacup.
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This seems to me to be rather a storm in ateacup.
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It will be of help to everybody like the tractor, the train and theteacup.
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This is the sort of thing that starts like a storm in ateacupand raises great constitutional issues.
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This seems rather a storm in ateacup.
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It is the classic storm in ateacup.
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