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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "como um elefante em uma loja de louças"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kak slón v posúdnoj lávke",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "как сло́н в посу́дной ла́вке"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "ako slon v porceláne"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "como elefante en cristalería"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "como un chivo en cristalería"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "como un elefante en una cacharrería"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "som en elefant i en porslinsbutik"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "som en elefant i en porslinsaffär"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "clumsily, aggressively",
"word": "züccaciye dükkanına giren fil gibi"
}
],
"word": "like a bull in a china shop"
}
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