china cupboard

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Buy a $20 nanny cam and position it at your china cupboard.

From Slate • Mar. 9, 2018

Q. Bull in a china cupboard: Recently while visiting my friend “Nancy,” I was chatting with her while she put away dishes from the dishwasher.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2017

I point to the royal blue on Mrs. Janssen’s Delft saucers in the china cupboard.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

W.E. wasn’t a fluted antique cup in Mrs. Nevins’s china cupboard.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

To the right of this, a china cupboard, and a door leading into the hall where the main front entrance to the house and the stairs to the floor above are situated.

From The Straw by O'Neill, Eugene