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
He knows that he is walking on eggs and that a fascinated and not too friendly audience is watching him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cackling happily, the hens then went on to such a fabulous overproduction that the whole U.S. was practically walking on eggs.
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"Ever since the market meltdown, ; Greenspan has been walking on eggs," says Pierre Rinfret, a New York City- based economist.
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
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