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A bull in a china shop

Posted by R. Berg on March 13, 2003

In Reply to: A bull in a china shop posted by Sax on March 13, 2003

: Can you please tell me where/how this phrase originated? Thank you...Sax

The Oxford English Dictionary says very little about it and gives an example of its use from 1841. The phrase may be older than that.

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