When pigs fly...
The idiom apparently comes from an old Scottish proverb, meaning the unlikeness of some event happening.
It's a slow news week in Seattle, other than an old mine that was discovered floating in Puget Sound near the Kitsap Naval Base. Mines dating back to World War II are known to still be out there. Or who knows? This one might have made its way from across the Pacific over the decades. Brave divers attached a tow line around it, and the Navy towed it off to a safe place tried to detonated it. It was a dud.
A tempest in a teacup...
Means a small event that has been exaggerated out of proportion.
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