1.   And needless to say, in the tiny teahouse I was myself the proverbial bull in the china shop.

2.   This young man was a bull looking for a china shop.

3.   What we feel is that by going at it like a bull in a china shop, we all sorts of accusations of widespread privatisation has actually backfired.

4.   Politically, he often behaved like a bull in a china shop.

5.   American politics and policy invaded a fragile Mexico last week, doing what bulls tend to do in china shops.

6.   And, in the eyes of international officials, she charged in like a bull in a china shop.

7.   But neither is he a bull in a china shop.

8.   He does not want to sit atop a narrow right-wing government, and he does not want to be a bull in the china shop diplomatically.

9.   He was a bull in a china shop, and his populist grandstanding wore on the nerves of his more cautious, more cerebral mentor.