n.
a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

knocking shop Idiom, Proverb

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

knocking shop

A brothel. Primarily heard in UK. Everyone knows that old alehouse acclimated to be a animadversion shop.Learn more: knock, shop

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