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Forgive my ignorance, but what is that? A goat? What's the homonym?
Bull in a China shop - Idiom that describes a clumsy person. The second one is a a kid in a candy store where kid means baby goat as well as a child (human)
In German, it's an elephant instead of a bull is someone is curious
It seems it is elephant in most languages. I was not even aware English idiom has a bull instead.