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[ tee-pot ] / ˈtiˌpɒt /
nouna container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is poured. Origin of teapotFirst recorded in 1610–20; tea + pot1 Words nearby teapotteam up with, teamwork, Teaneck, tea-of-heaven, tea party, teapot, Teapot Dome, teapoy, tear, tear apart, tear around Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for teapotOf course, this particular fooforaw may be a tempest in a teapot: OPM may rule that they can offer subsidies to staffers. Is Congress Trying to Exempt Itself From Obamacare?|Megan McArdle|April 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST When the ADL mixes serious, weighty trends with these teapot tempests, they ignore real Jewish issues. ADL List Features Jews As Passive Objects|Raphael Magarik|December 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST When CEO Jamie Dimon first announced the loss in April, he pegged it at just $2 billion, and called it “a tempest in a teapot.” JPMorgan Chase Earnings: CEO Jamie Dimon Comes Clean|Alex Klein|July 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST Already reaching mythical status is this handmade £250 Jubliee teapot. Teapots, Shortbread and Other Royal Merch|Tom Sykes|March 9, 2012|DAILY BEAST
It would be easy to dismiss the fuss as a tempest in a teapot or so much inside baseball. Intramural War of Words Raises Question of Who Loves Israel More|Linda Killian|January 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST He lifted the lid of the teapot, and took out—what do you think, now? Five Mice in a Mouse-trap|Laura E. Richards Whether this remark bore reference to the husband or the teapot is uncertain. Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3)|Charles Dickens Mr. Swenson showed him, very carefully, how to ignite the shavings with a teapot lamp. Steel|Charles Rumford Walker The tempest may be, in the abstract, only one in a teapot; but a tempest in effect it is, all the same. How to See a Play|Richard Burton "I never shall forget that experience," said the teapot, when it afterward talked of its life. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales|Hans Christian Andersen
British Dictionary definitions for teapot
nouna container with a lid, spout, and handle, in which tea is made and from which it is served Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with teapotThe American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |