walk on eggs

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"Those who value her companionship walk on eggs," said George T. Jones, a columnist for the Monroe Journal.

From National Geographic • Feb. 19, 2016

"Modern American young people seem to walk on eggs more than any other generation in the 20th century," writes Sociologist Reuel Denney of the University of Chicago in Daedalus.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can walk on eggs and never bu'st a one!

From The Ramblin' Kid by Bowman, Earl Wayland

I believe with six such legs You or I could walk on eggs; But he’d rather crawl on meat With his microbe-laden feet.

From A line-o'-verse or two by Taylor, Bert Leston