Bull in a china shop

Meaning: insensitive to delicate situations; to be so clumsy that one breaks things inadvertently, very careless in the way that they move or behave

Example: Tom was a bit of a bull in a china shop when he met his girlfriend’s family, asking all the wrong kinds of questions about her relatives. He always manages to break things. He’s like a bull in a china shop.

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