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tempest in a teacup and tempest in a teapot

an argument or disagreement over a very minor matter. The entire issue of who was to present the report was just a tempest in a teapot. The argument at the office turned into a tempest in a teacup. No one really cared about the outcome.

See also: teapot

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21) Hall's use of this image is in contrast to it in Lipsius's Two Bookes: "let showres, thunders, lighteninges, and tempestes fall round about thee, thou shalt crie boldlie with a loude voyce, I lie at rest amid the waves. "That which marreth all": constancy and gender in The Virtuous Octavia by Bruce, Yvonne / Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England Envoy Veneur maudict, retourne a tes tempestes, Va te plonger au gouffre sulphurin, Puis que n'as prins, par tes cors et trompettes, Pure lycorne expellant tout venyn. (Re)visiting Delie: Maurice Sceve and Marian Poetry [*] by DEFAUX, GERARD / Renaissance Quarterly This non-edenic heroism amounts to an ongoing Odyssean battle against enchantment and degeneration without hope for peace or perfection in this world's "furious Gulf euer combated with Stormes & Tempestes. The Caroline Church heroic: the reconstruction of epic religion in ... by Barbour, Freid / Renaissance Quarterly			tell me another Tell me another! tell of tell off tell on tell one to face tell people or things apart tell tales tell tales out of school tell the difference between Tell the truth and shame the devil tell the world tell things apart tell time tell to tell what to do with tell where to get off tell you what telling temper temper with temperature tempers fray tempest tempest in a teacup Tempestes tempt tempt fate tempt into tempt to do tempt with ten tend tend to do tend toward tender tender age of tender for tense up tenterhook term terrible terrify terrify into terrify or an animal out of territory terror test test for test in test out			TEMPEST Advisory Message Tempest attack Tempest attack Tempest attack TEMPEST Automated Data Acquisition and Analysis System Tempest Control Officer TEMPEST Endorsement Program Tempest Harding Incorporated Tempest in A Teacup Tempest in A Teacup Tempest in a teapot TEMPEST Information Message Tempest Keep TEMPEST Officer Education Symposium TEMPEST Profile Data List TEMPEST Security Index TEMPEST Small Computer Requirements Contract TEMPEST Technologies, Inc. TEMPEST Vulnerability Assessment Request TEMPEST Zone Assignments for Information-Processing Equipment Tempest, Dame Marie Tempest, The tempest-swept tempest-tossed tempest-tost Tempesta di idee tempested tempested tempested tempested Tempestes tempesting tempesting tempesting tempesting Tempestive Tempestivily tempests tempests tempests tempests tempestuous tempestuous tempestuously tempestuously tempestuousness tempestuousness Tempex Tempex Tempex tempi tempi tempi Tempietto tempilstick temping temping temping agency Templar Templar Templar

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