In reality, that would amount to bailing out the Pacific Ocean with a teaspoon.
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The spoon is ancient, although, like the fork, the teaspoon and tablespoon we use today are not.
It was a teaspoon of water in a test tube, not a mass of silicon, metal and plastic.
In fact, Abraham Lincoln once compared reorganising the army to bailing out the Potomac river with a teaspoon.
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Professor Love said it would take about 100 litres of bacteria to produce a single teaspoon of the fuel.
Stir in the corn, beans, wine or vermouth, water and 1 teaspoon salt.
Over its lifetime, the Civic will emit less pollution than is produced by spilling a teaspoon of gasoline on the ground.
Switching off phone chargers is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon.
He adds nothing bar a teaspoon of saccharine in the sweet barrels.
American cookbooks are generally timid in their use of juniper berries, usually calling for just two or three, when I think about 20 (one teaspoon) are what's needed.
You would be hard pressed to ever use a whole teaspoon of salt on a single serving of food or to get that many grams of fat onto your salad.
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It is heart wrenching to see people run back into burning homes desperately trying to retrieve pets or valuables and come out with a phone book, an old pillow, a teaspoon, and a broken heart.
As somebody who easily gets obsessed with measurements while cooking, filling the teaspoon of salt to the grain, recipes presented in this form feel closer to how I imagine anyone with actual cooking acumen approaches the metonymic kitchen.
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