TRUE OR FALSE?

Some time ago the Discovery Channel on DSTV had a program of a team in the USA who specialized in trying out all sorts of sayings to find out whether they are true or false, and one particular saying that they tested for "true" or "false" interested me very much.

Now you all know that we compare someone who is extremely clumsy to a bull in a china shop, and the team investigated this saying by "constructing a china shop" in a corral in one of the western states where the people still like to have rodeos, one item of which being riding a bull and whoever remained on top for the longest period was the winner. The bulls used are of course not very tame otherwise the whole contest would be non-existent! The team put up four shelves, each about 3 m long and 1,5 m high, with a space between them that would easily accommodate two people passing each other, which is just about the width of a normal bull, and then filled the shelves with all sorts of crockery articles. They then chased six bulls into the corral where the shelves were and the six bulls wandered around between the shelves for about ten minutes and did not even knock over one item of all the pieces on the shelves, let alone breaking anything!



Is like a bull in a china shop a true or a false comparison?

Oupa