a storm in a teacup• Both are trying to present the disagreement as a storm in a teacup.• Others sink in what outsiders might regard as a storm in a teacup.• But Mr Tait described the row as a storm in a teacup.• Within Dotty's hearing a home pirateremarked that he thought it had all been a storm in a teacup.• The successionissue seems rather a storm in a teacup to me.• However, it's a storm in a teacup.