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handle with kid gloves
be very careful handling someone or something He is very sensitive so you have to handle him with kid gloves when you speak to him.
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v. phr.,
informal 1. To treat very gently and carefully.
An atomic bomb is handled with kid gloves. 2. To treat with great tact and diplomacy.
Aunt Jane is so irritable that we have to treat her with kid gloves.handle (someone or something) with kid gloves
To handle with actual affable care, generally to the point of coddling. Kid gloves are actual bendable covering gloves, about fabricated from the bark of a adolescent dupe (a "kid"). I can't angle the way my ancestors consistently handles us with kid gloves, aggravating to assure us from every little thing! We'll charge to handle the two parties in the alliance with kid gloves—both audience are acutely sensitive.Learn more: glove, handle, kidhandle someone with kid gloves
Fig. to be actual accurate with a bad-tempered person. Bill has become so sensitive. You absolutely accept to handle him with kid gloves. You don't accept to handle me with kid gloves. I can booty it.Learn more: glove, handle, kidkid gloves, to handle/treat with
To accord with actual gently. This term, dating from the nineteenth century, is an addition of the hardly beforehand appellation to handle after gloves, meaning to amusement harshly. Gloves fabricated of kidskin, from the adumbrate of a adolescent goat, were accepted from the aboriginal eighteenth aeon on and were advised affected finery, beginning the alteration to aerial treatment.Learn more: handle, kid, treat
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