storm in a tea-kettle

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

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“1887, Henry Theophilus Finck, Romantic Love⟳ and Personal Beauty http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=OCLC05256148&id=iUX9lud1mrwC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&sig=Hz9EJd0U5Z51aRkXejYI8HqTITw But this momentary ebullition of feeling is but a storm in a tea-kettle compared to the ferocity of a jealous lover seeking to devour his rival.”

“Altogether this was rather a storm in a tea-kettle.”

“The Pisces ability to shrug complacently when things go wrong, refuse⟳ to make⟳ mountains out of molehills, stir⟳ up a storm in a teakettle, or cut⟳ down a beanstalk for no reason⟳...leaving poor Jack to fall⟳ to the ground with a thud...is such a lovely thing.”

“1999, Izaak Mansk, Emil Brut http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1896209416&id=KF_45aPRyQ4C&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&sig=HVzByFa3hH5dfoFA3Tvl_IAFTds So, I feel⟳ sure, and Mr. Willoughby also, that what we have⟳ now is a “storm in a tea-kettle”, so he called it today on the telephone to me, and he is the specialist, the famous nephrologist, who knows intimately Mr. Hartman’s case.”

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