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

Intoxicated by the uncontained torrent of relief, Aureliano Segundo broke the glass on the china closet and piece by piece, without hurrying, he took out the chinaware and shattered it on the floor.

From Literature

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