This caused a minor flap that ended when Letterman re-signed with CBS.

Typically the major flaps meet in the middle and the minor flaps do not.

"There really was a minor flap with the SEC, but that wasn't the important part."

In both instances, and numerous other minor flaps, he apologized to the authorities.

Two of the first three figure-skating competitions of the Olympics, the men's singles and the dance, have produced minor flaps over nationalistic judging.

A minor flap arose late in the evening.

We had two minor flaps early in the morning.

He was forced to apologize for the apology, and a minor flap blew up into page 1 headlines.

And now that a minor flap over a quota system for participation has been resolved, all of them are welcome to join the march of athletes.

That proved to be a minor flap compared with what happened when Earp stepped into the ring and a surprised police captain noticed he was carrying a gun.