Meanings
- nonce wordraresimileMundane.
Now, I sit as quiet as a bowl in a china shop.
2007, Chuck Rybak, Liketown, page 62 more examples
On an intuition, Jennifer offered, “That’s why you and Mr Tate get along so well. He’s like an earthenware bowl in a china shop because he’s more real … more solid and down-to-earth.”
2005, Ex Isle Forums: original fiction“Just get me whatever.” “Whatever what?” “Like a pen. Like a mug,” Jeff says. “Like a bowl in a china shop.”
2017 August 23, Hilary Leichter, “Like a Bowl in a China Shop”, in The New Yorker
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