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Define Kid Gloves Meaning
Kid Gloves
To
treat
someone with
extra
care and
gentleness
.
Jean is a little
wacky
, we will have to treat her
it kid
gloves
....
By Melamie
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Kid Gloves
figurative
gloves
that you
put on
to treat someone or something
carefully
.
Tom felt like his
uncle
was wearing kid gloves when he
treated
him and his girlfriend to
dinner
.
By Loise
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Kid Gloves
A
colloquial
soccer
term for a very young
goalkeeper
.
The
goalkeeper
was
so young
, the newspapers referred to him as
Kid Gloves
.
By Allie
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Kid Gloves
A euphemism meaning "one must handle carefully"
To treat someone with a different set of standards, different language, different
expectations
.
To soft-talk an individual,
sparing
them the
gory
details of reality.
Gotta use
kid gloves
on females,
because they can't
handle
reality.
By Helene
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Kid Gloves Tough Love
The version of
tough love
where the
parent
(typically) has to tippy-toe the tough love, rather than do smash-their-car- level tough love.
Variants
: tippy-toe tough love Antonym: smash-their-car-level tough love
Child: Pick my hanger up
Parent: No
Child (still in bed at midday): But you
knocked it
down
Parent: Its for your own good. GET OUT OF BED AND PICK THE *** THING
UP YOURSELF
Child: !
Parent:
Kid gloves tough love
, sweetie,
kid gloves tough love
By Flossie
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