china cupboard
Example Sentences
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Buy a $20 nanny cam and position it at your china cupboard.
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2018
Q. Bull in a china cupboard: Recently while visiting my friend “Nancy,” I was chatting with her while she put away dishes from the dishwasher.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2017
W.E. wasn’t a fluted antique cup in Mrs. Nevins’s china cupboard.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
I point to the royal blue on Mrs. Janssen’s Delft saucers in the china cupboard.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
Mrs. Macconichie had what Isabel felt sure were coins--gold coins--in one hand, and in the other the lid of a tobacco jar which stood in a corner of the china cupboard.
From A Duel by Marsh, Richard
