like a bull in a china shop
If someone is like a bull in a china shop, they are very careless in the way that they move or behave:
We told her it was a delicate situation but she went into the meeting like a bull in a china shop.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inability and awkwardness
- accident-prone
- all thumbs idiom
- amateurish
- at your worst idiom
- awkward
- boil
- fumble
- gauche
- geek
- ham-fisted
- have nothing on sb or sth idiom
- incapacitate
- nerd
- no great shakes idiom
- not have a prayer idiom
- obey
- organize
- paralysed
- prone
- rubbish
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Not paying attention