Nice and Interesting for a Small fortune which is Pretty good.

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Stephen Vandecasteele <vand195550 at ...> 
wrote:
 
> --- On Thu, 1/8/09, Carol <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
 
> > From: Carol <justcarol67 at ...>
> > Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Nice and Interesting for a Small fortune which is 
Pretty good.
> > To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 11:28 AM

Stephen Vandecasteele:
 > > > > Its nothing, its a tempest in a tea kettle.
> > ,snip>    
 
Geoff:
> > > Surely you mean a storm in a teacup?
> > > :-)

Carol: 
> > Not a tempest in a teapot? Do we really all say it that
> > differently?
 
> > Carol, now wondering how Mrs. Figg would say it
 
Steve:
> "A tempest in a tea cup" is the proper saying.

Geoff:
(deleting all the unwanted ">")

The UK version, which I think Mrs. Figg would also use, is 
the one I quoted.