English

Noun

storm in a tea-kettle ‎(plural not attested)

1. Alternative form of storm in a teacup: synonym of tempest in a teapot
   • 1887, Henry Theophilus Finck, Romantic Love and Personal Beauty

     But this momentary ebullition of feeling is but a storm in a tea-kettle compared to the ferocity of a jealous lover seeking to devour his rival.

   • 1908, The Parliamentary Debates

     Altogether this was rather a storm in a tea-kettle.

   • 1992, Linda Goodman, Linda Goodman's Love Signs

     The Pisces ability to shrug complacently when things go wrong, refuse to make mountains out of molehills, stir up a storm in a teakettle, or cut down a beanstalk for no reason...leaving poor Jack to fall to the ground with a thud...is such a lovely thing.

   • 1999, Izaak Mansk, Emil Brut

     So, I feel sure, and Mr. Willoughby also, that what we have now is a “storm in a tea-kettle”, so he called it today on the telephone to me, and he is the specialist, the famous nephrologist, who knows intimately Mr. Hartman’s case.