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bull in a china shop
noun as in butterfingers
Example Sentences
Gen. Rob Bonta called Musk a “bull in a china shop,” and said Trump’s unilateral appointment of him to a “made up” but extremely powerful post was a “clear and dangerous effort to bypass the nomination and confirmation process required under the Constitution.”
“He’s a bull in a China shop,” 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 “like a bull in a china shop; he’s almost honest to a fault, too.”
Germany’s 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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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