Word: teapot-tempest
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...appalling scene sent newsmen scurrying from the wharf to fill luridly indignant columns. For four days the story raged. High Army brass seemed to think it was all a teapot-tempest. "Conditions," they said, "are no worse than the Japs accustomed others to." At Canberra the Government seemed to share this eye-for-an-eye philosophy. Officials turned their faces resolutely away from a blizzard of protesting telegrams, tried vainly to shift the blame to the Jap authorities, MacArthur, the Chinese or anyone else handy. Complained one M.P.: "The Government should have forbidden the press to cover the story...
...Niffnaw, a U.S. colloquialism, means a teapot-tempest. It may possibly be derived from the old Scottish dialect word niffnaff, meaning "trifle " example (from a poem by Scottish Poet Allan Ramsay...
From that moment the afternoon's quiet lay shattered. A teapot-tempest burbled through the House. All the country's discontent with Winston Churchill's management of home affairs whistled over...
...Professor & Mrs. George Barbour; that Lady Whyte, at dinner, had worn a red evening dress. Sir Frederick's ideas on England's future or on any other world problem remained sacred to 160 members of the local English-Speaking Union, whose guest he was. Thence arose a teapot-tempest between the Cincinnati Press and Cincinnati socialites...
...Schacht, having upset the applecart, set about picking up the apples. Within 24 hours he announced that he (i.e., the Reichsbank) would supply the needed cash. The political neck of Optimist Hilferding seemed saved and the whole affair might have passed off as a teapot-tempest, except for the famed Berliner Tageblatt whose editor announced that he possessed the inside story, upset the apples again...