um. feel free to use if you should ever find it appropriate.

I was just sitting here trying to get my brain to give me the phrase for a kerfuffle that's very small though very intense, or very intensely focused in a very small virtual space/span of time. I think I was trying to access the expression tempest in a teapot but what my brain actually handed me was... wank in a teacup.

And then I pictured that, and then I thought... no, that's really something else entirely.