storm in a teacup

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The row was dismissed earlier this week by Vowles - a Mercedes customer - as "noise that will probably go away", and by Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff as "a storm in a teacup".

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

"At the end this discussion didn't lead into a contract," he said, calling the affair "a storm in a teacup."

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2023

If they persist in pretending this is a storm in a teacup, there will likely be political and social consequences--because we women are just plain fed up.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2017

Jennifer Morgan, of the independent U.S.-based World Resources Institute, said the idea of India as a spoiler was "a storm in a teacup".

From Reuters • Dec. 5, 2015

In Sicily is a town called Messina, which is the scene of a curious storm in a teacup that raged several hundred years ago.

From Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Nesbit, E. (Edith)