Meaning:
A clumsy or tactless person
Examples:
- Just don't go into her house like a bull in a china shop.
- Okay, but just don't go charging around like a bull in a china shop.
- Well, let's just say he's got the finesse of a bull in a china shop.
- Yes, we need to act. But not like a bull in a china shop.
- It would not be appropriate if Parliament waded into the discussion like a bull in a china shop.
- I believe that the European institutions will not charge into this affair like a bull in a china shop.
- And what is Mr Barroso doing, going around like a bull in a china shop as usual?
- We Europeans even leave the initiative to the Americans who send Jesse Jackson and let him loose in Freetown like a bull in a china shop.