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How does the saying goes?

Like a bull in a china SHOP
28 (100%)
Like a bull in a china HOUSE
0 (0%)

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Offline Styxx

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Bull in a china...?
on: November 24, 2005, 07:30:26 am
Ok, simple question to settle a little dispute I'm having with a friend of mine. How does the saying go: "Like a bull in a china shop" or "Like a bull in a china house"? Just answer which one you think is the correct (or most used) one. Comments appreciated.
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Offline Setekh

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #1 on: November 24, 2005, 07:36:52 am
Shop. I've never heard it called a china house... well, not until now. :nervous:
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Offline Fineus

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #2 on: November 24, 2005, 07:44:30 am
Shop, and I've never heard it called china house either. I've no idea where anyone got the idea of "china house" from, but it sounds like the meaning could be more or less the same.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #3 on: November 24, 2005, 07:58:35 am
What is a "china house"? :p
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Offline BlackDove

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #4 on: November 24, 2005, 08:01:30 am
There is no China "House" - China shop refers to the shop that sells china (porcelain, ceramic), and the phrase is used to describe someone clumsy, ie if you got a bull in that shop, he'd break everything.

To say "China House" means absolutely nothing, since china is not sold in houses. But that's simple logic.
 

Offline Styxx

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #5 on: November 24, 2005, 08:15:25 am
My thoughts exactly. Vindication is near.
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Offline vyper

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #6 on: November 24, 2005, 08:38:37 am
In Communist China, china in bull shop!
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Offline Corsair

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #7 on: November 24, 2005, 09:40:04 am
In Communist China, china shop in bull!
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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #8 on: November 24, 2005, 09:40:57 am
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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #9 on: November 24, 2005, 10:09:49 am
Shop. :nod:
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Offline Taristin

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #10 on: November 24, 2005, 10:39:13 am
No one really says either, but shop makes more sense, so there.
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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #11 on: November 24, 2005, 10:45:54 am
People say it... maybe not in your neck of the woods, but I've heard it quite a few times befroe.
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Offline Goober5000

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Re: Bull in a china...?
Reply #12 on: November 24, 2005, 01:20:09 pm
I wonder if they're using "china house" in the same sense as "glass houses" in the proverb.
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