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bull in a china shop
Idioms and Phrases
An extremely clumsy person, as in Her living room, with its delicate furniture and knickknacks, made him feel like a bull in a china shop . The precise origin for this term has been lost; it was first recorded in Frederick Marryat's novel, Jacob Faithful (1834).Example Sentences
Gen. Rob Bonta called Musk a 鈥渂ull in a china shop,鈥 and said Trump鈥檚 unilateral appointment of him to a 鈥渕ade up鈥 but extremely powerful post was a 鈥渃lear and dangerous effort to bypass the nomination and confirmation process required under the Constitution.鈥
鈥淗e鈥檚 a bull in a China shop,鈥 McCoy said.
One longtime NFL figure familiar with Bieniemy, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said he came across 鈥渓ike a bull in a china shop; he鈥檚 almost honest to a fault, too.鈥
Germany鈥檚 unpopular government came in for lampooning, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz portrayed as a sloth and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock as an elephant in a porcelain shop, the German equivalent of a bull in a china shop.
Ms Shelley described him as "like a bull in a china shop - once he gets moving, nothing's going to stop him".
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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