kid glove

noun

kid glove

First recorded in 1705–15

handle with kid gloves, to treat with extreme tact or gentleness:
He's upset, so handle him with kid gloves today.

Daisy Shaw knocked quickly on the front window with her little, nervous hand in its tight, white kid glove.

Properly withered leaf should be as flexible as a soft kid glove.

No wonder he wrote bitter words of the kid-glove geographers, who criticized him, and the press that jeered at him.

And now he was dangling a new, black kid glove in front of her.

A splendid story of the political game, with a son of the soil on the one side, and a “kid glove” politician on the other.

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