kid gloves
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"That kind of argument really belongs to the past," he says, noting the idea that foreign investors "have to be treated with kid gloves or they run away... no longer has much force".
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
By treating actual adults—the chat participants weren’t teenagers—with kid gloves, they contribute to the cultural malady of infantilization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
But the idea of handling such a gleeful provocateur with kid gloves seems to somehow miss the point of De Palma’s work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
Pittsburgh has used kid gloves with Jones at times, though he also threw a career-high 96 pitches over seven brilliant innings against Colorado last weekend.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2024
Francie saw practical black two-seaters drawn by a single high-stepping horse controlled by dandified young men in kid gloves with edges turned back to look like inverted cuffs.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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