We see a lot of weather here in Canada. In fact, I'm told that Canadians discuss weather more than any other nation! But, Storm in A Teacup? Tempest in a teapot or storm in a teacup is an idiom meaning a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion. There are also lesser known variants, such as storm in a cream bowl, storm in a wash-hand basin. The phrase first appears in print in the January 1838 edition of the defunct The United States Democratic Review, in an article regarding the Supreme Court. To quote: "This collegiate tempest in a teapot might serve for the lads of the University to moot; but, surely, was unworthy the solemn adjudication attempted for it." Both the American English and British English phrases are long preceded by Cicero's Latin "Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo". The phrase, translated literally, reads: "He was stirring up billows in a ladle".
Ah, but there is a storm in a teacup steeping!!!
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