walking on eggs
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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
In writing the play, Anouilh was plainly 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.
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"Ever since the market meltdown, ; Greenspan has been walking on eggs," says Pierre Rinfret, a New York City- based economist.
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Several yanks were required to hoist the horse into a position appropriate to locomotion, and when action was achieved the animal started as if walking on eggs.
From Mortmain by Train, Arthur Cheny
