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  • n  as much as a teacup will hold
  • n  a cup from which tea is drunk

  • Then one day the Clacks were called to treat a baby with an abscess "as big as a teacup.
  • Similarly, I could not help but feel aghast when a farmer in the countryside, seeing my teacup half full, insisted on filling it with tea from his own cup.
  • While she waited, she -read suggestions that would-be-helpful people had written to her: try catchup in beer, try holding your ears, try wishing on an inverted teacup.
News & Articles

  • Tiny, Ancient Tree-Dweller Was One Of Earth's Earliest Primates
    About 55 million years ago, a teacup-sized critter in China was helping to pave the way for apes and humans. This insect eater had fingernails and stereo vision, a newly published analysis of a fossil suggests. And it weighed just 1 ounce.
    June 6, 2013 - NPR
  • New tea room, Fancy That, open for business in Walpole
    As a child, Sarah Erlandson saved her allowance and once walked to an upscale gift store in Norwood Center and tried to buy her mother a knickknack she thought was $1 but which was actually $100. The saleswoman smiled and pointed the embarrassed 8-year-old to a teacup, saucer, and plate. Erlandson purchased the “trio” for $4, knowing today that it was worth much more.        
    June 6, 2013 - Boston Globe
  • Bonifay Garden Club Celebrates National Garden Week
    Under the leadership of new Bonifay Garden Club president Adonna Bartlett, small teacup plants are being distributed to various businesses as well as to the public library and the Holmes County Chamber of Commerce in commemoration of National Garden Week.
    June 5, 2013 - Washington County News / Holmes County Times-Advertiser
Quotes

  • Rodrigo de Rato in Washington Post
    Rodrigo de Rato, outgoing head of the IMF, said Monday in an interview with the London newspaper Financial Times that the credit crisis was "not a storm in a teacup."
  • Andrew Flintoff in Times Online
    We sat down and spoke about a few things and, as far as we're concerned, it's finished,Flintoff said. "We've got a great friendship and something like this, a bit of a storm in a teacup, isn't going to affect that." "I'm looking...
  • Yulia Tymoshenko in AFP
    Tymoshenko said at a meeting with regional leaders: "The government is going to work for a long time and is going to work successfully despite all these storms...... Because this is a storm in a teacup."

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