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kid glove
noun
- a glove made of kid leather.
kid glove
noun
- a glove made of kidskin
- handle with kid glovesto treat with great tact or caution
adjective
- overdelicate or overrefined
- diplomatic; tactful
a kidglove approach
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Word History and Origins
Origin of kid glove1
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Idioms and Phrases
- handle with kid gloves, to treat with extreme tact or gentleness:
He's upset, so handle him with kid gloves today.
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Example Sentences
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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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