like a bull in a china shop

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(simile) Clumsy, aggressive, without care or concern, without self-control.
- 1855, Robert De Valcourt, The illustrated manners book: a manual of good behavior and polite^[1], page 89:
  
  An awkward man in society is like a bull in a china shop, always doing mischief.

clumsy, aggressive

(simile) Clumsily, aggressively, without care or concern, without self-control.
- 1869, Every Saturday: a journal of choice reading^[2], page 108:
  
  Some comparisons in general use partake of the humorous and satirical, as when one man is said to comport himself "like a bull in a china shop".

clumsily, aggressively