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Default Re: My "I need an Idiom" thread

They could be "young Turks" (Re: Young Turks). I've never known anyone object to this as 'racist' - it is, in fact, quite complimentary.

If you don't like that... {thinks}... "a bull in a china shop" is usually singular; but it'd be quite effective to speak about "a herd of bulls in a china shop".

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