Re: USAGE: Inventing gunpowder & idioms

At 1:02 pm -0500 1/3/99, John Cowan wrote:
>FFlores wrote:
>
>> Oh, I think I've heard that in Spanish too, both "hacer una
>> tormenta" (make a storm) and "ahogarse" (drown).
>
>In English: a tempest in a teapot.
Or this side of the pond: a storm in a teacup.

Ray.