china cupboard

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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

Jane Foley snatched at one of the four cups and saucers on the table, and put it back, all unwashed, into the china cupboard.

From The Lion's Share by Bennett, Arnold