teapot

[ tee-pot ]

/ ˈtiˌpɒt /

noun

a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.

Nearby words

Origin of teapot

First recorded in 1610–20; tea + pot¹

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Examples from the Web for teapot

Of course, this particular fooforaw may be a tempest in a teapot: OPM may rule that they can offer subsidies to staffers.
Is Congress Trying to Exempt Itself From Obamacare?|Megan McArdle|April 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
When the ADL mixes serious, weighty trends with these teapot tempests, they ignore real Jewish issues.
ADL List Features Jews As Passive Objects|Raphael Magarik|December 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST
When CEO Jamie Dimon first announced the loss in April, he pegged it at just $2 billion, and called it “a tempest in a teapot.”
JPMorgan Chase Earnings: CEO Jamie Dimon Comes Clean|Alex Klein|July 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Already reaching mythical status is this handmade £250 Jubliee teapot.
Teapots, Shortbread and Other Royal Merch|Tom Sykes|March 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST

It would be easy to dismiss the fuss as a tempest in a teapot or so much inside baseball.
Intramural War of Words Raises Question of Who Loves Israel More|Linda Killian|January 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He lifted the lid of the teapot, and took out—what do you think, now?
Five Mice in a Mouse-trap|Laura E. Richards
Whether this remark bore reference to the husband or the teapot is uncertain.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3)|Charles Dickens
Mr. Swenson showed him, very carefully, how to ignite the shavings with a teapot lamp.
Steel|Charles Rumford Walker
The tempest may be, in the abstract, only one in a teapot; but a tempest in effect it is, all the same.
How to See a Play|Richard Burton
"I never shall forget that experience," said the teapot, when it afterward talked of its life.
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales|Hans Christian Andersen

British Dictionary definitions for teapot

teapot

/ (ˈtiːˌpɒt) /

noun

a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is served

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Idioms and Phrases with teapot

teapot

see tempest in a teapot.