Sentence examples for tempest in a teapot from inspiring English sources

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Tempest in a teapot.

If people exaggerate the seriousness of a situation or problem, they are making a tempest in a teapot.

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Dimon, in another conference call less than a month ago, called stories about the desk "a tempest in a teapot".

It's a tempest in a teapot".

"It's also a tempest in a teapot.

Q. We'd say "a tempest in a teapot".

"The whole thing sounds like a tempest in a teapot".

"It was a tempest in a teapot," he says.

Sometimes a tempest in a teapot produces some nasty steam.

But achieving that assurance will take more than a tempest in a teapot.

For intelligence professionals, the efforts to compromise commercial products are a tempest in a teapot.

A TEMPEST in a teapot, said Downing Street at the beginning of this week.

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