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a bull in a China shop

"a big, reckless person in a room full of fragile things; cramp your style" Imagine a 300-pound football player at a tea party, and you have a bull in a China shop.

bull in a China shop

(See a bull in a China shop)

knee high to a grasshopper

small or short, the size of a child When we lived in Oslo, you were just knee high to a grasshopper.

set up shop

organize a place to do business, buy a store You could set up shop and sell this pizza. It's delicious!

shop around

go to various stores to look for something We shopped around for a month before we bought a new stereo system.

shop talk

(See inside joke)

shoplifting

stealing products from a store while you shop He's charged with shoplifting. He stole some cigarettes.

talk shop

talk about jobs, talk about what we do at work I don't like to talk shop when we have visitors. It's too boring.

all over the shop

1. in a mess, out of order, disorganized
2. everywhere:"I've been all over the shop this morning"

as the actress said to the bishop

a jocular catch phrase that draws attention to an otherwise innocent statement, by imbuing sexual innuendo

awning over the toy shop

male beer belly

bash the bishop

to masturbate. Jocular male terminology. Derived from the similarity of the head of the penis with a bishop's mitre

cop shop

a police station

set up shop somewhere

Idiom(s): set up shop somewhere

Theme: ESTABLISHMENT

to establish one's place of work somewhere. (Informal.)
• Mary set up shop in a small office building on Oak Street.
• The police officer said, "You cant set up shop right here on the sidewalk!"

knee-high to a grasshopper

Idiom(s): knee-high to a grasshopper

Theme: SHORT

not very tall; short and small, as a child. (Folksy.)
• Hello, Billy. I haven t seen you since you were knee-high to a grasshopper.
• I have two grandchildren, both knee-high to a grasshopper.

go window-shopping

Idiom(s): go window-shopping

Theme: SHOPPING

to go about looking at goods in store windows without actually buying anything.
• The clerks do a lot of window-shopping in their lunch hour, looking for things to buy when they get paid.
• Joan said she was just window-shopping, but she bought a new coat.

close up shop

Idiom(s): close up shop

Theme: STOP

to quit working, for the day or forever. (Informal.)
• It's five o'clock. Time to close up shop.
• I can't make any money in this town. The time has come to close up shop and move to another town.

An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

When you work you avoid temptation.

Shop floor

'Shop floor' refers to the part of an organisation where the work is actually performed rather than just managed.

bull in a china shop|bull|china|china shop|shop

n. phr. A rough or clumsy person who says or does something to anger others or upset plans; a tactless person. We were talking politely and carefully with the teacher about a class party, but John came in like a bull in a china shop and his rough talk made the teacher say no.

close up shop|close|shop

v. phr. 1. To shut a store at the end of a day's business, also, to end a business. The grocer closes up shop at 5 o'clock. After 15 years in business at the same spot, the garage closed up shop. 2. informal To stop some activity; finish what you are doing. After camping out for two weeks, the scouts took down their tents and closed up shop. The committee finished its business and closed up shop.
Compare: CALL IT A DAY.

closed shop|close|closed|shop

n. phr. 1. A plant or factory that employs only union workers. Our firm has been fighting the closed shop policy for many years now. 2. A profession or line of work dominated by followers of a certain mode of thinking and behaving that does not tolerate differing views or ideas. Certain groups of psychologists, historians, and linguists often behave with a closed-shop mentality.
Antonym: OPEN SHOP.

knee-high to a grasshopper|duck|grasshopper|knee|k

adj. phr., informal As tall as a very small child; very young. Charles started reading when he was knee-high to a grasshopper. I've known Mary ever since she was knee-high to a duck.

open shop|open|shop

n. phr. A factory or firm that employs both union and non-union labor. The firm refuses to adopt an open shop policy.
Antonym: CLOSED SHOP.

shop around for|shop|shop around

v. phr. To make the rounds of various commercial establishments in order to find the most economical answer for one's needs. We've been shopping around for a larger condominium that is affordable, and near the university.

shoplifter

n. A thief who steals things from a store. The TV camera identified the shoplifter, who was then arrested and sentenced to jail.

shopping center|center|shopping

n. A place usually for neighborhood shopping, where there is a group of stores and shops inside of a large parking lot. There is a bowling alley at the nearest shopping center. All the stores in our shopping center stay open until nine o'clock on Friday evenings.

shopworn

adj. A piece of merchandise that is offered below the usual price because it is slightly damaged or soiled. Although shopworn, the jacket was perfectly usable, so he eagerly bought it.

talk shop|shop|talk

v. phr., informal To talk about things in your work or trade. Two chemists were talking shop, and I hardly understood a word they said.

grasshopper

grasshopper
see knee-high to a grasshopper.

shop

shop
In addition to the idiom beginning with shop, also see bull in a china shop; close up; set up; shut up; talk shop.

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