These include acrobat, internet, cigarette, reset, teapot, and tonight.
If he taxes metal teapots more that would be unfair to people who want to buy earthenware teapots, so he taxes earthenware teapots as well.
But the whole case of this sub-postmaster is a tempest in a teapot.
The ordinary workman can, if he wishes to drink, spend his money on a teapot or a coffee pot.
One can buy as many as one likes, but not a teapot, or cup and saucer.
When the teapot had been upset and the tablecloth irretrievably stained, they all moved round to a clean place on the tablecloth.
Everybody, who knows anything about the way in which people in humble circumstances live, knows that a teapot is on the hob all day long.
Eventually, this teapot is put back in the cupboard until the next great occasion.
