This is a beautiful post, Erika. Amazing craft. I would buy some of those beautiful plates. But my son... Do you know that saying? "Bull in a china store". He has a thing for breaking stuff. π
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This is a beautiful post, Erika. Amazing craft. I would buy some of those beautiful plates. But my son... Do you know that saying? "Bull in a china store". He has a thing for breaking stuff. π
Elephant in a china store! :D I know the feeling, I have an elephant who breaks things, mine is old :D
Do you have a son or a daughter? How old is he/she?
It is a bull in a china store. This is the correct saying listed in Cambridge Dictionary. The elephant saying is part of the slang vocabulary and it is more recent. We are both right. π
No, no, I don't have kids, I was referring to my dad π
He is so careless at times, like an elephant ππ
Looks like I'll be taking lessons from you, couldn't be bothered to look this up π
Oh, your dad. That's funny. My dad was very clumsy too. If you wanted to break something, just hand it to him. π
Do you know how I learned the correct form? One of our managers (British guy) was doing many stupid things so someone had to step in and do something about it). With my colleagues blessings, I started a conversation with the guy. Shortly, the discussions took a nasty path and I told him he is like an elephant in a china store. He started to shout saying that he is not an elephant but a person with weight problems. So I looked up the expression and found the correct version and the explanations. π
My dad is not clumsy, he just don't care or can't or won't pay attention. I guess it comes with age.
He broke 3 glasses in a second and so on π
I told him from now on I'm going to give him only plastic things or rubber things π
Good to know about the bull, next time imv with foreigners I'm not going to make this mistake π
Poor fellow. Breaking glasses or plates is considered to bring good luck. So why punishing him for this great initiative? Plastic or rubber would not have the same effect. π
Tell me about it! π