walking on eggs
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But time after time, the accounts of Watergate events in his book are couched in the vague terms of the diplomat who is walking on eggs.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Ever since the market meltdown, ; Greenspan has been walking on eggs," says Pierre Rinfret, a New York City- based economist.
From Time Magazine Archive
On his return to Italy, Togliatti said of Khrushchev's famed outburst against Stalin: "He was like an elephant walking on eggs."
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In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly walking on eggs.
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But between now and forty he must live as though he were walking on eggs.
From The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift
