china cupboard
Example Sentences
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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
In the china cupboard there were still the old-fashioned Crown Derby services, the costly cut glass, the Leeds and Wedgewood dessert dishes that Cousin Mary Leicester had used for half a century.
From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
