Whenever I enter the region that was the kingdom of my mind I feel like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Ensconced in the doctor's home, he lunges around like the proverbial bull in a china shop, keeping the Sobels awake at night as he cavorts noisily with a prostitute and disrupts a solemn family gathering by appearing in his pajamas to chase the same woman out of the house amid a flurry of curses.

Monsignor Linder has often acted like the proverbial bull in a china shop, knocking over politicians, bureaucrats and assorted naysayers who are viewed as roadblocks to rebirth in the Central Ward.

But in a home setting, those same qualities also meant they could be like the proverbial bull in the china closet.

Edkins, as he walked among a galaxy of fragile, gilded chairs, looked like the proverbial bull amid a collection of chinaware.

Art Bordsky, spokesman for Public Knowledge, a Washington-based public policy group, said Sopa was "the proverbial bull in the proverbial china shop" and that the bill as it stands would have "terrible consequences" for the internet.

It wasn't exactly sentient, but I found myself asking it to respond, instead of bludgeoning my way into using it like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

I'm trying very hard not to be the proverbial bull in the china shop, and I genuinely appreciate both the difficulties you face and the efforts you're making on our behalf.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Bien sûr, for some of the restaurants the rich red Michelin cover has been a culinary flag waved at the proverbial bull.