walking on eggs
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He knows that he is walking on eggs and that a fascinated and not too friendly audience is watching him.
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."
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
In the next few meetings, as they talked about "tax reform" and closing loopholes as well as raising new money, Reagan seemed to be walking on eggs.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We'll move as if we were walking on eggs, Dad."
From The Caves of Fear by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
