Right now I had all the grace of a bull in a china shop.

'John here can be like a bull in a china shop.

"The only way it's going to happen again is if we act like a bull in a china shop.

"He can be like a bull in a china shop," said one banker who worked with him.

It was one of those givens, like a bull in a china shop.

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

"Like a bull in a china shop," he suggested, and won a smile.

I believe that the European institutions will not charge into this affair like a bull in a china shop.

And what is Mr Barroso doing, going around like a bull in a china shop as usual?

It would not be appropriate if Parliament waded into the discussion like a bull in a china shop.

"I'm not a bull in a china shop," she said, during an interview at White & Case.

"You're worse than a bull in a china shop.

And Custer with a snootful was even more a bull in a china shop than he had been any other time.

You're not going to go storming in there like a bull in a china shop again?

I feel like a bull in a china shop, with all these young women gawping.'

The worst thing sandwich generationers can do is to move into a parent's life like a bull in a china shop and take over everything.

Some say that he has acted like a bull in a china shop in dealing with Europe's smaller countries.

Like a bull in a china shop, he upsets both the talk and the beautifully laid tea setting.

You can't be running around like a bull in a china shop - which in the past has been your specialty."

According to Williams, Tyler at first may come off as a bad guy, and compared him to "a bull in a china shop".

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

I've been charging around like a bull in a china shop, and all that's been accomplished is that even my friends won't help me out.

"That's just like him, barging ahead like a bull in a china shop."

Papile said: "Early on, I think he was more a bull in a china shop.

With Cameron like a bull in a china shop all that will be left of the country will be broken pieces.