teapot
[tee-pot]
- a container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured.
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Origin of teapot
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Contemporary Examples
Of course, this particular fooforaw may be a tempest in a teapot: OPM may rule that they can offer subsidies to staffers.
When the ADL mixes serious, weighty trends with these teapot tempests, they ignore real Jewish issues.
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.”
Already reaching mythical status is this handmade £250 Jubliee teapot.
It would be easy to dismiss the fuss as a tempest in a teapot or so much inside baseball.
Historical Examples
I had given tea and a teapot, with instructions, to the waiter.
The Roof of FranceMatilda Betham-Edwards
"You'd frighten them away, if you did," said Mrs. Jenkins, dashing some water into the teapot.
The ChanningsMrs. Henry Wood
John Westlock put the teapot down, and looked at him, in astonishment.
Life And Adventures Of Martin ChuzzlewitCharles Dickens
When I came back the tray had been swept clean and the teapot emptied.
In a Steamer Chair and Other StoriesRobert Barr
In the hall she upset the teapot and a candle which was standing on the floor.
A Hero of Our TimeM. Y. Lermontov
teapot
- 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.
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