In last week’s show about animal idioms, I mentioned the phrase a bull in a china shop, which you’d use to describe someone who is clumsy or careless, and both Joseph and John on Twitter pointed out that the Myth Busters have busted the myth that bulls are clumsy in china shops.
The MythBusters set up a china shop in a bull ring, let in a bull, and he didn’t knock over anything. And he wasn’t just walking around carefully, he was trotting and maybe even running. It reminded me of an dog going through an agility course—it was amazing, and then they let in two and three bulls and they still didn’t knock over anything. So although the phrase a bull in china shop seems like a good way to describe someone careless or clumsy, it turns out that we have been unfairly disparaging bulls.
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