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BULL IN A CHINA SHOP

insensitive to delicate situations; to be so clumsy that one breaks things inadvertently
 BULL IN A CHINA SHOP
1. Tom was a bit of a bull in a china shop when he met his girlfriend’s family, asking all the wrong kinds of questions about her relatives.
2. Larry can’t take his son into the glassware store because he always manages to break things. He’s like a bull in a china shop.


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