Tempest in a teapot
Tempest in a teapot (in American English), or storm in a teacup (in British English), is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.[1] There are also lesser known variants, such as storm in a cream bowl,[citation needed] storm in a wash-hand basin.[citation needed]
The phrase is at least a century and a half old, as evidenced in the January 1838 edition of the defunct The United States Democratic Review, in an article regarding the Supreme Court. To quote: "This collegiate tempest in a teapot might serve for the lads of the University to moot; but, surely, was unworthy the solemn adjudication attempted for it."[2]
Both the American English and British English phrases are long preceded by Cicero's Latin "Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo", meaning, literally, "He was stirring up billows in a ladle" (De Legibus, III, 16).
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