| ??? 05/27/10 13:10 Read: times |
#176230 - Tempest in a teapot |
in another therad this came up
We have the variant "Storm i vattenglas" - storm in a glass of water - in Sweden. same in Danish "Storm i et glas vand" in America we have a variant "a tempest in a teapot" I took a glance at Wiki (a good source if you are not totally concerned with accuracy): Both the American English and British English phrases are long preceded by Cicero's Latin "Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo".[5] The phrase, translated literally, reads: "He was stirring up billows in a ladle". I am getting cutious as to what the equivalents are in other countries, please provide (with a translation, please) Erik |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Tempest in a teapot | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| British | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| In Marathi... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
that's nice :-) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Argentina | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "making donkey out of a mosquito" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| A donkey? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| As a poor country, we don't have elephants in Slovakia... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Oh certainly | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| BG | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Brazilian portuguese | 01/01/70 00:00 |