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• n  pot for brewing tea; usually has a spout and handle

• Eventually they relented, assuming the pieces would soon wind up strewn around the kitchen, a plastic bishop stuffed into a teapot, the white king face down in a bowl of ph.
• Still, Aguirre predicts, the issue of the new currency and whether it's legal or not is a case of a "tempest in a teapot" an issue that will fade away as soon as the inevitable .
• From the beginning, the great Dixon-Yates ruckus of 1954-55 was more a teapot tempest than a Teapot Dome, but the Eisenhower Administration recoiled from it as though it were .

News & Articles

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• Fulton board opts to pay bottled water bill
  Call it Five Star Water-gate ... or a tempest in a specially brewed teapot.   Both fit.   Even if the amount of taxpayer money involved is small, Fulton County Board member Ed Huggins believes the principle is large. He does not think the county highway department should get bottled water on the public dime if the water from the tap in their building is drinkable. And his investigation shows ...
  June 15, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star
• J.C. Penney gets in hot water with tea kettle some say looks like Hitler
  J.C. Penney didn't think its teapot looked like Hitler, but enough people did that the company took down a billboard and removed the product from its website.
  June 11, 2013 - Detroit Free Press

Quotes

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• President Bush in Arizona Daily Star
  It is not surprising that this often leads to unnecessary federal spending, such as a swimming pool or a teapot museum tucked into a big spending bill,Bush said in his weekly radio address.
• James S. Thomas in FOXNews
  I think this is a tempest in a teapot,Thomas said.
• Dianne Feinstein in Wall Street Journal
  Asked this week about Mrs. Pelosi's variable recollections, Senator Feinstein, who chairs the Intelligence Committee, responded: "I think it's a tempest in a teapot really to say, Well, Speaker Pelosi should have known all of this, she should have...