(3) I see the teacup with my eyes, but my brain refuses to send me the teacup message.
(4) Compared with working out if there is a real threat of nuclear war from the world's last full-dress totalitarian state, this may seem like a storm in a British teacup.
(5) Was it the greatest scandal in modern science or a storm in a teacup whipped up by climate sceptics and an uncritical media?
(6) Phillips, who described the issue as "a storm in a teacup", said the defence of fair comment was "one of the most difficult areas of the law of defamation".
(7) In his reading of the situation, his history with the Klan is a storm in a teacup, something the media only brings up to discredit his current criticism of international Zionism.
(8) I find these debates about reading as enjoyably incensing as anyone – and, just to be clear, I deplore the restrictions placed on prisoners' access to books , which seems less of a storm in a teacup and more of a violation of basic human rights.
(9) While the supreme court agreed in its judgment this morning with the solicitor advocate for the defendants that the case was "a storm in a teacup", they noted: "The storm is considerable.
(10) I remember feeling hungry; they gave us just a teacup.
(11) To take away those unique courses is to take away the heart of Soas.” Baroness Amos: I was taken aback when I found out I was the first black female head of a university Read more But the row was described as a “storm in a teacup” by a university spokesperson, who said the letter had been sent in error, and although cuts and savings did have to be made at Soas, no decisions had yet been taken.
(12) There, his mother, in her mid-30s, dressed in a spotless white blouse, and with a Lady Diana-like haircut, was reading a newspaper and sipping from a genteel white teacup.
(13) Half-udder comparisons were made using 56 cows for 2 months, in an experiment involving high bacterial challenge, to assess the combined effects of 5 min overmilking and pulsation failure (resulting from the use of shortened teacup liners) on teat condition and mastitis.
(14) But usually comics ride out these teacup-sized Twitterstorms - or indeed their real-world equivalents.
(15) Nobody wants a commemorative teacup of Kate on a stepladder doing the bathroom.
(16) The classic appearance is that of milk of calcium, seen as linear, curvilinear, or teacup-shaped particles on horizontal-beam lateral views and as ill-defined smudges on vertical-beam craniocaudal views.
(17) For those who had never heard of Lord Rennard , in the teacup of the Lib Dem party he is a storming figure.
(18) Something is terribly wrong with the way this incident has been shaped and spun into nothing more than an unfortunate mishap on a holiday weekend, like a broken teacup in the rented cottage."
(19) Someone informed me in the comments that Ruby has been engaged in a "Twitter row" but I just googled it and it sounds like a storm in a teacup.
(20) "I would say to you this is a bit of a storm in a teacup.
Teacupful
Definition:
(n.) As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2007, Eurostar ran adverts in Belgium for its trains to London depicting a tattooed skinhead urinating into a china teacup.
(3) I see the teacup with my eyes, but my brain refuses to send me the teacup message.
(4) Compared with working out if there is a real threat of nuclear war from the world's last full-dress totalitarian state, this may seem like a storm in a British teacup.
(5) Was it the greatest scandal in modern science or a storm in a teacup whipped up by climate sceptics and an uncritical media?
(6) Phillips, who described the issue as "a storm in a teacup", said the defence of fair comment was "one of the most difficult areas of the law of defamation".
(7) In his reading of the situation, his history with the Klan is a storm in a teacup, something the media only brings up to discredit his current criticism of international Zionism.
(8) I find these debates about reading as enjoyably incensing as anyone – and, just to be clear, I deplore the restrictions placed on prisoners' access to books , which seems less of a storm in a teacup and more of a violation of basic human rights.
(9) While the supreme court agreed in its judgment this morning with the solicitor advocate for the defendants that the case was "a storm in a teacup", they noted: "The storm is considerable.
(10) I remember feeling hungry; they gave us just a teacup.
(11) To take away those unique courses is to take away the heart of Soas.” Baroness Amos: I was taken aback when I found out I was the first black female head of a university Read more But the row was described as a “storm in a teacup” by a university spokesperson, who said the letter had been sent in error, and although cuts and savings did have to be made at Soas, no decisions had yet been taken.
(12) There, his mother, in her mid-30s, dressed in a spotless white blouse, and with a Lady Diana-like haircut, was reading a newspaper and sipping from a genteel white teacup.
(13) Half-udder comparisons were made using 56 cows for 2 months, in an experiment involving high bacterial challenge, to assess the combined effects of 5 min overmilking and pulsation failure (resulting from the use of shortened teacup liners) on teat condition and mastitis.
(14) But usually comics ride out these teacup-sized Twitterstorms - or indeed their real-world equivalents.
(15) Nobody wants a commemorative teacup of Kate on a stepladder doing the bathroom.
(16) The classic appearance is that of milk of calcium, seen as linear, curvilinear, or teacup-shaped particles on horizontal-beam lateral views and as ill-defined smudges on vertical-beam craniocaudal views.
(17) For those who had never heard of Lord Rennard , in the teacup of the Lib Dem party he is a storming figure.
(18) Something is terribly wrong with the way this incident has been shaped and spun into nothing more than an unfortunate mishap on a holiday weekend, like a broken teacup in the rented cottage."
(19) Someone informed me in the comments that Ruby has been engaged in a "Twitter row" but I just googled it and it sounds like a storm in a teacup.
(20) "I would say to you this is a bit of a storm in a teacup.