china closet
Example Sentences
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“To her, the world was not a china closet where you admire this and don’t touch that,” McBride wrote of Chona in the novel.
From Seattle Times
Trump "is like a bull in a china closet," Johnson said, but his chaotic nature gives him the power to "expose darkness and perversion in America like never before."
From Salon
The current president resembles Winston Churchill’s description of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — “the only bull I know who carries his china closet with him.”
From Washington Post
The Scotts’ studio is jammed with a Steinway grand piano, a Murphy bed, two recliners and a china closet full of antiques.
From New York Times
We have in Mr. Trump a bear in a china closet.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
