单词 | tempest in a teapot |
释义 | tempest in a teapota lot ofunnecessaryangerandworryabout amatterthat is notimportant 小题大做,大惊小怪Inconvenience
tempest in a teapot| American Dictionarytempest in a teapotsomething of noimportancethatcausesagreatdealofexcitementortrouble: Itseemedlike aninnocentremark, but it set off a tempest in ateapot. Examplesoftempest in a teapottempest in a teapot But the whole case of this sub-postmaster is atempestinateapot. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope we can find a solution without having yet anothertempestinateapot. From Wikipedia ![]() The presiding judge ruled that the matter was atempestinateapot, did not constitute a disturbance in the legal sense of the term. From Wikipedia ![]() These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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