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SOME TEA IDIOMS

(Not my) cup of tea = Doesn’t suit me; or suits me perfectly. “Steamed brussells sprouts are not my cup of tea.”

All the tea in China = “You couldn’t get me to try hang-gliding for all the tea in China!”

Storm in a teacup (”tempest in a teapot” is the older version) = related to “making a mountain out of a molehill”

Tea and sympathy = kindness shown to someone who is upset

About as useful as a chocolate teapot = Someone or something that is of no practical use is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

And, this lovely one in Yiddish: hok not kain tchynik = don’t knock a teapot, or “don’t talk nonsense.”

KNOWN ACRONYMS OF T.E.A. AND THEIR DEFINITIONS
(Source: thefreedictionary.com)

TEA Tactical Engineering & Analysis, Inc.
TEA Tactical Espionage Action (game)
TEA Targeted Enforcement Area (police warning radar)
TEA Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic
TEA Technical Engineering Authority
TEA Technical Exchange Agreement
TEA Technicien en Entretien d’Aéronefs
TEA Technology Exchange Agreement
TEA Technology for Enabling Awareness
TEA Telephone Extension Alert
TEA Television Equipment Associates (Brewster, NY)
TEA Temperate East Asia
TEA Ten Eyck Associates
TEA Terminal Education Age
TEA Tetraethylammonium
TEA Texas Education Agency
TEA Texas Electronics Association (Fort Worth, TX)
TEA The Electronic Alveary (word search program)
TEA Themed Entertainment Association
TEA Thromboendarterectomy
TEA Ticket Entry Automation
TEA Timing Error Avoidance
TEA Tiny Encryption Algorithm (developed by David Wheeler and Roger Needham at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University)
TEA Tirupur Exports Association (India)
TEA Toronto Entomologists’ Association
TEA Toronto Environmental Alliance
TEA Torque Equilibrium Attitude
TEA Training Effectiveness Analysis
TEA Training Employment Advice Shop
TEA Transient Effect Area
TEA Transitional Employment Assistance (State of Arkansas)
TEA Transportability Engineering Analysis
TEA Transportation Engineering Agency
TEA Transportation Engineering Agreement
TEA Transportation Enhancement Activities (Canada)
TEA Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
TEA Transversely Excited Atmosphere
TEA Triethanolamine
TEA Triethyl Aluminum
TEA Triethylamine
TEA Twin Engine Aircraft
TEA Twinsburg Education Association (Twinsburg, Ohio)