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词汇 storm-in-a-teacup
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storm in a teacup


idiomUK(UStempest in a teapot)
a lot of unnecessary anger and worry about a matter that is not important小题大做,大惊小怪
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inconvenience
a pain (in the neck)idiom
a pain in the arse/backsideidiom
aggravation
aggro
awkward
bother
bulky
disturbance
fuss
hassle
have fun and gamesidiom
imposition
incommode
more trouble than it's worthidiom
nuisance
palaver
pinprick
tempest
untoward
untowardly

Examples of storm in a teacup


storm in a teacup
It is a storminateacup: 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 storminateacup.
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It seems to me to be a storminateacup about these business letters.
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I will not say it is a storminateacup, but it is rather like one.
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It is a complete storminateacup.
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It is, in my view, a storminateacup.
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I feel strongly that it is a storminateacup.
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This matter is a storminateacup; it is an argument about nothing.
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Secondly, this is a very small matter; it is a storminateacup.
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This seems to me to be rather a storminateacup.
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This is the sort of thing that starts like a storminateacup and raises great constitutional issues.
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This seems rather a storminateacup.
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It is the classic storminateacup.
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I think that the whole thing is rather a storminateacup.
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Therefore, it seems to me that, to a large extent, this is a storminateacup.
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