tempest in a teapot in English
big fuss made over a relatively unimportant issue, great uproar over something insignificant
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1. Her anger was unreasonable, a tempest in a teapot.
2. 16 Haley dismissed the lawsuit as a tempest in a teapot.
3. Stephen Jay Gould, the noted biologist, pointed out that the issue was a tempest in a teapot in his famous article, "Bully for the Brontosaurus" written for Natural History magazine