Etymologies
- Earliest date: 1838 (Wiktionary)
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tempest in a teapot’.
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My Strange Kitchen
It seems that whenever I look away, new gadgets and devices and tools and dishes and utensils and ingredients are multiplying in my kitchen drawers and my cabinets.
tectonic plates, spoonbill, fork in the road, bowl haircut, whisk away, greasy spoon, melting pot, pan flute, platelets, spooning, pitchfork, jackknife and 101 more...
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Creative Phone-Answering
Inspired by the conversation at den of iniquity.
well, hello clarice, house of ill repu..., braaaaaaains . . . ., you started it!, you raaang, your call is impo..., yellow, what!, moshi-moshi, chained_bear's pl..., slough of despond, den of iniquity and 60 more...
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weather idioms
blow the doors off, calm before the s..., eye of the hurricane, it's an ill wind ..., which way the win..., right as rain, storm is brewing, weather the storm, up a storm, quick as lightning, April showers bri..., scattered to the ... and 50 more...
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in words out there
inpour, inturn, intail, inend, inhear, inhere, incense, immesh, a drop in a bucket, a shot in the dark, alice in wonderland, bear in mind and 66 more...
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