loves イディオム

drop your gloves (hockey)

remove your gloves to fight with your fists Don't drop your gloves in this game. There's no fighting.

gloves are off

(See the gloves are off)

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.

misery loves company

sad people want to be with other sad people On the door of the jail was this sign: Misery Loves Company.

somebody up there loves/hates me

an expression meaning that an unseen power in heaven has been favorable/unfavorable to you "Somebody up there loves me," he said as he found the money on the side of the road.

the gloves are off

the fight is beginning, play hardball The candidates have insulted each other. The gloves are off!

handle sb with kid gloves

Idiom(s): handle sb with kid gloves

Theme: CAUTION

to be very careful with a touchy person.
• Bill has become so sensitive. You really have to handle him with kid gloves.
• You don't have to handle me with kid gloves. I can take it.

Kid gloves

If someone is handled with kid gloves, they are given special treatment and handled with great care.

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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.

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slang An expression intimating that an unseen power in heaven, such as God, has been favorable or unfavorable to the one making the exclamation. Look at all the money I won! I say somebody up there sure loves me! Look at all the money I've lost! I say somebody up there sure hates me!

handle with gloves

handle with gloves
Also, handle with kid gloves. Treat with great or very gently, as in She has a terrible temper, so try to handle her with kid gloves. This usage probably alludes to the antonym, handle without gloves, meaning “to treat harshly.” Gloves made of kidskin, the hide of a young goat, are soft and pliable, whence the transfer to delicate treatment. [Second half of 1800s]

somebody up there loves me

somebody up there loves me
I am having very good luck right now; also, someone with influence is favoring me. For example, I won $40 on that horse—somebody up there loves me, or I don't know how I got that great assignment; somebody up there loves me. This idiom, generally used half-jokingly, alludes either to heavenly intervention or to the help of a temporal higher authority. [Colloquial; mid-1900s] Also see friend in court.

with the gloves off

with the gloves off
With or ready to dispense rough treatment, as in Prepared to oppose the council, the mayor marched into the meeting with the gloves off. This idiom alludes to old-style boxing, when gloves were not used. [Early 1800s]