1.   A tea leaf was a thief, in rhyming slang.

2.   Helen uncovered her cup, checking to see if her tea leaves had sunk all the way to the bottom yet.

3.   I bet Barrow was choked, he smiled to himself as he emptied stale tea leaves from the pot into the sink.

4.   All this without even seeing your tea leaves.

5.   Make her se, listen to her crystal ball and read the tea leaves.

6.   Analysts are left to sift through tea leaves of adjectives that the company sprinkles throughout its earnings report.

7.   As a result, spot prices bounced around on each new tea leaf, finishing the day somewhat lower after an early upward spike.

8.   At another firm, where he had tracked the commodities markets, he had proved himself a canny reader of tea leaves.

9.   At the same time, Fleischer cautioned reporters against reading tea leaves or overplaying the news of any meetings.