VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Bull in a China Shop

Meaning:

A clumsy or tactless person

Examples:

  • Just don't go into her house like a bull in a china shop.
  • Okay, but just don't go charging around like a bull in a china shop.
  • Well, let's just say he's got the finesse of a bull in a china shop.
  • Yes, we need to act. But not like a bull in a china shop.
  • It would not be appropriate if Parliament waded into the discussion like a bull in a china shop.
  • I believe that the European institutions will not charge into this affair like a bull in a china shop.
  • And what is Mr Barroso doing, going around like a bull in a china shop as usual?
  • We Europeans even leave the initiative to the Americans who send Jesse Jackson and let him loose in Freetown like a bull in a china shop.