bull in a china shop 的定义
- 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.
bull in a china shop 近义词
等同于 butterfingers
等同于 blunderer
等同于 screwup
更多bull in a china shop例句
- ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
- Finding the shop is a trip in itself and an introduction to a slice of history.
- He did travel to China and Australia while the story was unfolding.
- I suspect [Teresa] will get money sent in to her, so she can shop at the commissary.
- This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
- But at the instant I caught a sight of my counterfeit presentment in a shop window, and veiled my haughty crest.
- The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
- Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
- Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.
- Then a fat, untidy old man appeared in the doorway of a cubicle within the shop, and Edwin Clayhanger blushed.