Certainly, the president's supporters might call his recent political setbacks a tempest in a teapot; however, it could turn out to be a tempest in a Teapot Dome … or worse.
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Tempest in a teapot or a harbinger of something bigger?
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To the Editor: Talk about a tempest in a teapot!
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Nobody manufactures a tempest in a teapot quite like the English.
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Probably not; this tempest in a teapot should just stay where it is.
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The conclusion I reach is that this is a tempest in a teapot.
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They will say it's a tempest in a teapot or perhaps a grand conspiracy.
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For Google, the tempest in a teapot couldn't have come at a worse time.
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The flurry of activity many conservative activists expected has been a tempest in a teapot.
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As far as controversy over the Goldwater rule, it's a tempest in a teapot to me.
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It makes Warren G. Harding's Teapot Dome scandal look like, well, a tempest in a teapot.
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Quick take: It's something of a tempest in a teapot, but more on that in a moment.
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The debate may sound like a tempest in a teapot, but it matters very much for retirees.
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If you're not following the Android blogs, you might say this is a tempest in a teapot.
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Hopefully, this dispute will soon prove to have been little more than a tempest in a teapot.
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So far the markets are relatively sanguine, treating the whole tariff issue as a tempest in a teapot.
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To us, this Conor McGregor PR flap is doubly, even triply, ridiculous: a true tempest in a teapot.
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Some men dismissed it as a tempest in a teapot, while others even warned that it was potentially dangerous.
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He famously dismissed media accounts of the losses as a "tempest in a teapot" — a remark he later said he regretted.
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I stand corrected 🤣 you can tell I'm new here Like so many things on the socials, this was a tempest in a teapot.
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Here's hoping this particular tempest in a teapot resolves happily; but don't forget, there are a lot more teapots where this one came from.
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The other side: Manchin says ... Our thought bubble: I'll return to a point I made recently: This is something of a tempest in a teapot.
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The latest tempest in a teapot is about why more Democrats were not in Jerusalem on May 2628, when the U.S. opened our Embassy there.
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The scandal hurt the reputation of JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon, who at first downplayed the losses as a "tempest in a teapot" before changing course.
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Mr. Kosovsky called the Twitter debates over the alphabet song a "tempest in a teapot," but he also weighed in on the version shared by Mr. Garfinkel.
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The same applies to Benedict Cumberbatch's bit as gender-nonconforming supermodel All (the subject of a tempest-in-a-teapot controversy — this is harmless satire, not damaging misrepresentation).
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If Trudeau keeps his head down (and his beard trimmed) it may turn out to have been just a tempest in a teapot -- or much a-dough about nothing.
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This speech thing is a tempest in a teapot that will soon blow over (particularly if you release the text of your speeches to prove that there is no smoking gun).
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"He can be a bit of a tempest in a teapot in terms of personality — he's unpredictable — but if everything goes correctly, there's no one he can't beat," Mr. Rothenberg told us.
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon famously referred to its so-called "London Whale" losses as a "tempest in a teapot," just a month before disclosing it had lost more than $2 billion on the trades.
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Of course, Zvyagintseva is containing xenophobia and nationalist fervor rather than fomenting a grassroots retaking of power; in her work, the outcry is a kind of tempest in a teapot — a folly, though a dangerous one.
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He'll find a good home On one level, this Bruenighazi is exactly what it seems to be: a matter of considerable importance to one family's finances but essentially a tempest in a teapot — a series of personal spats boiling out of control.
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This incident may be a tempest in a teapot, but it will calcify positions on the left and the right about the self-interest of big technology and these companies' ability to regulate content on their own platforms to the detriment of free speech — even in advertising.
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From an American perspective, the French furor over defining an official position and responsibilities for the first lady looks like a tempest in a teapot: First ladies, whether Republican or Democrat, at least since the presidency of Herbert Hoover, have pushed boundaries — some more than others.
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In the weeks since the tempest-in-a-teapot around a set of DLC characters, we've seen further evidence of the extent of militant, officially sanctioned white supremacy, the ongoing affinity modern white supremacist fascists have for the symbolism of the Third Reich, and we've also seen how much mainstream cultural discourse struggles to comprehend that connection.
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In her lucidly written catalogue essay for As in Nature, guest curator Alexandra Schwartz, in an attempt to tread the slippery line between form and content in Frankenthaler's work, wades deliberately into a now-forgotten tempest-in-a-teapot, namely the degree with which an abstract painting should be seen as referencing the world outside its edges.
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During this period, she also gained acclaim for her column "Tempest in a Teapot" in the Manila Chronicle, before the newspaper was shut down during Martial Law.
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However, surviving participants in the Reference process do not think that the allegations, even if true, undercut the validity of the Court's decision. Other scholars said that the patriation process violated judicial independence.Cristin Schmitz, "Patriation allegations: ‘A tempest in a teapot’ " The Lawyers Weekly, April 26, 2013.
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In August 2011, Brown commented on NPR about the SEC's destruction of documents related to dropped investigations. Brown was quoted as saying, "My initial take on this is it's a tempest in a teapot... What appears to be going on here is the SEC would look at a matter, decide not to bring a case and largely purge the file of documents."Johnson, Carrie, "SEC Documents Destroyed, Employee Tells Congress", National Public Radio (transcript and audio), August 18, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-18.
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Bowen, Craig H. (1995). Academic Freedom and the Utah Controversies of 1911 and 1915, Unpublished Master's thesis, J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. This caused many in the press and members of other church institutions to question the church's authority to regulate professor's freedom of speech in the classroom. A similar controversy at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City — what Brimhall himself at the time described as 'a tempest in a teapot' — erupted four years later in February 1915.
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JPMorgan denied the first news reports, with Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon calling it a "tempest in a teapot." Major losses of $2 billion were reported by the firm in May 2012 in relation to these trades. On July 13, 2012, the total loss was updated to $5.8 billion with the addition of a $4.4 billion loss in the second quarter and subsequent recalculation of a loss of $1.4 billion for the first quarter. A spokesman for the firm claimed that projected total losses could be more than $7 billion.
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Carl Guttenberg's 1778 Tea-Tax Tempest, with exploding teapot'' Tempest in a teapot (American English), or storm in a teacup (British English), is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion. There are also lesser known or earlier variants, such as tempest in a teacup, storm in a cream bowl, tempest in a glass of water, storm in a wash-hand basin,Christine Ammer, The American Heritage dictionary of idioms, p. 647, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997 , 9780395727744 and storm in a glass of water.
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After the Clinton trading matter became public, Leo Melamed, a former chairman of the Mercantile Exchange, was brought in by request of the White House to review the trading records. On April 11, 1994, he said that the whole matter was "a tempest in a teapot" and that while her brokers had not required her to provide typical margin cushions, she had not knowingly benefited.Gwen Ifill, " Hillary Clinton Didn't Report $6,498 Profit In Commodities Account, White House Says", The New York Times, April 12, 1994. Accessed July 15, 2007.
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Many of his works utilize unusual instrumentations, extended techniques or theatrical setups. For Tempest in a Teapot, commissioned by the Dutch Music Days for the Radio Kamer Philharmonic, the orchestra is spatialized around the public. As winner of the Harvey Gaul competition from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, he composed Sound becomes visible in the form of radiance, which is built around the bowing of a piano: “a radical work that reorients the listener's relationship to time.” (Mark Kanny, Pittsburgh Tribune) His recent set of six pièces mécaniques for Calefax and Eric Vloeimans consists mostly of text directions and staging diagrams.
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" Matt Yuyitung of Exclaim! described it as "a scrappy psychedelic sound that sits somewhere between Tame Impala and the garage rock howl of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard". Loud and Quiet, however, described it as "an absolute noise rock maelstrom. Here is your proverbial tempest in a teapot." Chad Parkhill of The Quietus similarly noted "an unhinged and feral energy that pulses through these nine songs and goes beyond the considerable demented racket that the Drones are able to conjure at their finest: it’s less full-frontal sonic assault and more auditory guerrilla warfare, full of surprising textures and scrappy tones.
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Writing for the Fort- Worth Star-Telegram, Larry Swindell called The Storm an 'entirely wonderful [example of a] paraphrase of Shakespeare',Larry Swindell, "Tempest in a Teapot", Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, December 6, 1998, p. 5. while the Kirkus Review found it to be 'a wonderfully humane and satisfying meditative romance', containing 'a fascinating set of variations on the Shakespearean source, expressed in spare, simple declarative sentences that propel the story forward with commendable swiftness.' The reviewer further noted Buechner's 'skilful' movement between 'the viewpoints of several major characters', before concluding that the novel constitutes 'A marvelous adaptation of Shakespeare—one of the best ever.'"Review: The Storm", Kirkus Review, November 1, 1998, p. 208.
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Also Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain, is credited for popularizing this phrase as characterizing the outbreak of American colonists against the tax on tea. This sentiment was then satirized in Carl Guttenberg's 1778 engraving of the Tea-Tax Tempest (shown above right), where Father Time flashes a magic lantern picture of an exploding teapot to America on the left and Britannia on the right, with British and American forces advancing towards the teapot. Just a little later, in 1825, in the Scottish journal Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, a critical review of poets Hogg and Campbell also included the phrase "tempest in a teapot". The first recorded instance of the British English version, "storm in teacup", occurs in Catherine Sinclair's Modern Accomplishments in 1838.
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Flynn also described a meeting at the SEC in which top staff discussed refusing to admit the destruction had taken place, because it was possibly illegal. Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley, among others, took note of Flynn's call for protection as a whistleblower, and the story of the agency's document-handling procedures. The SEC issued a statement defending its procedures. NPR quoted University of Denver Sturm College of Law professor Jay Brown as saying: "My initial take on this is it's a tempest in a teapot," and Jacob Frenkel, a securities lawyer in the Washington, D.C., area, as saying in effect "there's no allegation the SEC tossed sensitive documents from banks it got under subpoena in high-profile cases that investors and lawmakers care about".
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Ann Weaver Hart wrote that the 1911 BYU controversy made Utah comparatively less emotional and reactionary than other parts of the country during the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial. At the University of Utah in Salt Lake City a similar controversy — what some at the time described as 'a tempest in a teapot' — erupted four years later in February 1915. There, the dismissals of two professors and two instructors by President Joseph T. Kingsbury — and the subsequent resignations of 14 faculty members in protest — launched the American Association of University Professors' first institutional academic freedom inquest, spearheaded by AAUP founders Arthur O. Lovejoy and John Dewey. The 1911 BYU controversy — involving some of the same professors, including the Peterson brothers and the Chamberlins — led in part to the University of Utah debacle.
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Cicero, in the first century BC, in his De Legibus, used a similar phrase in Latin, possibly the precursor to the modern expressions, "Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo ut dicitur Gratidius", translated: "For Gratidius raised a tempest in a ladle, as the saying is". Then in the early third century AD, Athenaeus, in the Deipnosophistae, has Dorion ridiculing the description of a tempest in the Nautilus of Timotheus by saying that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan. The phrase also appeared in its French form "une tempête dans un verre d'eau" (a tempest in a glass of water), to refer to the popular uprising in the Republic of Geneva near the end of the eighteenth century. One of the earliest occurrences in print of the modern version is in 1815, where Britain's Lord Chancellor Thurlow, sometime during his tenure of 1783–1792, is quoted as referring to a popular uprising on the Isle of Man as a "tempest in a teapot".
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In the case of the 2012 JPMorgan Chase trading loss, according to a US Senate report published in March 2013 after 9 months of investigation, Dimon misled investors and regulators in April as losses rose dangerously to $6.2 billion on a "monstrous" derivatives bet made by the so- called "London Whale" Bruno Iksil. According to Carl Levin, chairman of this panel, JP Morgan had "a trading operation that piled on risk, ignored limits on risk taking, hid losses, dodged oversight and misinformed the public". Dimon dismissed press accounts of possible losses in Iksil's book as a "tempest in a teapot" on April 13, 2012 when he knew that Iksil had already lost $1 billion, which led Levin to say "None of those statements made on April 13 to the public, to investors, to analysts were true," and "The bank also neglected to disclose on that day that the portfolio had massive positions that were hard to exit, that they were violating in massive numbers key risk limits." Dimon corrected that wrong information a month later, in May 2012, before the true damage was revealed, after US Securities and Exchange financial watchdog started reviewing the losses.
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