Usually means: Clumsy person causing much damage.
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  1. like a bull in a china shop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. like a bull in a china shop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. like a bull in a china shop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. like a bull in a china shop: Wiktionary

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  1. like a bull in a china shop: Idioms

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  1. like a bull in a china shop: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (like a bull in a china shop)

adjective:  (simile) Clumsy, aggressive, without care, concern or self-control.
adverb:  (simile) Clumsily, aggressively, without care, concern or self-control.

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