![]() ![]() “The so-called ‘Ahn wind’ is more than a tempest in a teapot,” said Lee Taek-soo, head of Realmeter. ( USA Today)ĭrinking my morning coffee and skipping around on Twitter recently I came across an interesting little tempest in a teapot involving Glenn Thrush, Politico’s chief political correspondent. There have been some hiccups along the way: The $6 billion in losses racked up by the “London whale” - a U.K.-based trader in the bank’s Chief Investment Office - in 2012 raised genuine concerns about even Dimon’s ability to manage an organization of JPMorgan’s complexity (his early qualification of the problem as “a tempest in a teapot” came back to haunt him). Both of the idioms a tempest in a teapot and a storm in a teacup seem to have originated in Scotland in the early half of the 1800s. The Duke of Ormand, in a letter written in 1678, refers to something that is but a storm in a cream bowl. in the writings of Cicero, in a phrase that translates as stirring up billows in a ladle. The basic sentiment of a tempest in a teapot and a storm in a teacup seems to have originated in 52 B.C.E. Other languages have similar idioms, including the French une tempete dans un verre d’eau, or a storm in a glass of water. A tempest in a teapot is an American idiom, the British equivalent is a storm in a teacup. ![]() A tempest in a teapot is a small problem or event that has been blown out of proportion.
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