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bellow like a (wounded) bull Idiom

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.

bite the bullet

try harder, be tougher "Bite the bullet during exam week. Don't party; just study."

bull/bullshit/BS

a story that is not all true, balderdash His explanation is a lot of bull. Don't believe it.

bull-headed

" stubborn; inflexible."

bull in a China shop

(See a bull in a China shop)

bully for you

you were lucky, good for you "When I beat Ed at cribbage, he says, ""Bully for you!"""

cock and bull

nonsense, bull, BS Don't believe that cock-and-bull story about Bigfoot.

dodge a bullet

avoid a failure or loss or injury "Kevin dodged a bullet. He got a ""D"" on the final exam."

hit the bull

go to the most important part of a matter, reach the main question She hit the bull

hit the bulls-eye

reach the main point I think that he really hit the bulls-eye when he talked about the problems with the regular staff.

bellow like a (wounded) bull

cliché To bawl or scream actual audibly and aggressively. My ancestor started bellowing like a blood-soaked balderdash back I told him I had alone out of college. For a woman of such baby stature, she abiding does bark like a balderdash back she's angry!Learn more: bellow, bull, like

bellow like a (wounded) bull, to

To scream in outrage. The affinity is about 2,500 years old, from the time of the Greek artist Aeschylus, who wrote, “He bellowed like a balderdash whose throat has aloof been cut.” Strictly speaking this cliché is a tautology, back to bark means “to barrage as a bull,” and has done so back the era of Middle English. Shakespeare wrote, “Jupiter became a balderdash and bellow’d” (The Winter’s Tale, 4.3).Learn more: bellow, like, to

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