a storm in a teacup

a storm in a teacup

• • [主英国英语]小事引起的轩然大波，小题大作
  • 见 storm [亦作 a tempest in a teacup 或 teapot]

• gabbled
• trencher-fed
• compound tides
• pleochromatism
• trihydrated
• British Commonwealth (of Nations)
• .bz
• vellums
• have in
• disimperialism
• Fourier analysis
• obelise
• spendable
• remediableness
• isopor
• sb is a (good) laugh
• Lumbrical muscles
• ferroelectric hysteresis
• nitrofurantoin
• douched
• gangplough
• fiddley
• tenure track
• sand pipe
• diminutively
• stop the clock
• den mothers
• transverse dunes
• vote sb into / out of power / office / parliament etc
• macon
• put behind
• groundmass
• sulfisoxazole
• winding
• vier
• overstanding
• hypophyge
• poke about
• dumb card
• wellying
• paroxytones
• mobile phones
• Classical Greek
• fastening
• Get a life!
• nubility
• waxest
• tap up
• for Heaven's sake!
• Mex.Sp.
• social comparison theory
• cladder
• muck-up
• agrostologist
• have/bring one’s heart in one’s mouth
• robbery
• concurrent processing
• otalgias
• summer fallowing
• Samarang
• permeant
• metarossite
• pamperedness
• troutperches
• Mesonychidae
• semideification
• anachronistical
• nosy parkers
• ticket-collector
• rhesuss
• net aboveground production
• deoxyhemoglobins
• Milankovicher
• crispation
• outboard motors
• degenerating
• acquittance
• signal conditioning
• discomfort index
• bombasts
• asnes
• coat dress
• force de dissuasion
• digital readout
• lamentation
• analogue computers
• jackstraw
• honesty
• siffleuse
• copecks
• take a wicket
• entitle sb to
• count up
• nincompoops
• optical printer
• longer-ranges
• Mary
• nozzle throat
• system safety
• jokings