German: Sturm im Wasserglas ('storm in a glass of water').

French: une tempête dans un verre d'eau ('a storm in a glass of water').

Finnish: myrsky vesilasissa ('storm in a glass of water').

Filipino: bagyo sa baso ('typhoon in a teacup').

Estonian: torm veeklaasis ('storm in a glass of water').

Esperanto: granda frakaso en malgranda glaso ('a large storm in a small glass').

Dutch: een storm in een glas water ('a storm in a glass of water').

Danish: en storm i et glas vand ('a storm in a glass of water').Czech: bouře ve sklenici vody ('a storm in a glass of water').Chinese: 茶杯裡的風波、茶壺裡的風暴 ('winds and waves in a teacup storm in a teapot').Bulgarian: Буря в чаша вода burya v chasha voda ('storm in a glass of water').Arabic: زوبعة في فنجان zawba'a fi finjan ('a storm in a cup').Other languages Ī similar phrase exists in numerous other languages: There are several instances though of earlier British use of the similar phrase 'storm in a wash-hand basin'. The first recorded instance of the British English version, 'storm in teacup', occurs in Catherine Sinclair's Modern Accomplishments in 1838. Just a little later, in 1825, in the Scottish journal Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, a critical review of poets Hogg and Campbell also included the phrase 'tempest in a teapot'. This sentiment was then satirized in Carl Guttenberg's 1778 engraving of the Tea-Tax Tempest (shown above right), where Father Time flashes a magic lantern picture of an exploding teapot to America on the left and Britannia on the right, with British and American forces advancing towards the teapot. Also Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain, is credited for popularizing this phrase as characterizing the outbreak of American colonists against the tax on tea. One of the earliest occurrences in print of the modern version is in 1815, where Britain's Lord Chancellor Thurlow, sometime during his tenure of 1783–1792, is quoted as referring to a popular uprising on the Isle of Man as a 'tempest in a teapot'. The phrase also appeared in its French form une tempête dans un verre d'eau ('a tempest in a glass of water'), to refer to the popular uprising in the Republic of Geneva near the end of the eighteenth century. Then in the early third century AD, Athenaeus, in the Deipnosophistae, has Dorion ridiculing the description of a tempest in the Nautilus of Timotheus by saying that he had seen a more formidable storm in a boiling saucepan. South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor echoed Dr Coetzee’s comments, saying the UK’s decision to ban flights “seems to have been rushed”.Cicero, in the first century BC, in his De Legibus, used a similar phrase in Latin, possibly the precursor to the modern expressions, Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo ut dicitur Gratidius, translated: 'For Gratidius raised a tempest in a ladle, as the saying is'. A further 114 #COVID19 related deaths have been reported, bringing total fatalities to 89,771 to date. #COVID19 UPDATE: A total of 38,075 tests were conducted in the last 24hrs, with 2,465 new cases, which represents a 6.5% positivity rate. Other countries including Germany, Italy, France, Israel, Japan and Singapore have also restricted travel, while the European Commission has recommended EU countries introduce an “emergency brake” on travel from affected countries.Ĭases of the new variant have been found in South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong, Israel and Belgium.

Passengers arriving in the UK from these countries from 4am on Sunday will be required to book and pay for a Government-approved hotel quarantine for 10 days. On Thursday the UK government added South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Namibia to the UK’s travel red list. “We know there are a lot of mutations but no-one can tell us at this stage if it means something, or if it is just going to fade away.

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