kid glove
Gentle handling required
Kid gloves are gloves made from the soft skin of a young goat (a kid).
The phrase appears most often in handle with kid gloves—to treat someone or something with extreme delicacy or caution, as one might handle fine leather: The new CEO was handled with kid gloves by the board.
The opposite, take off the kid gloves, means to stop being gentle and get serious.
- handle with careInstruction for delicate items
- fitProper or healthy
- delicateEasily broken or harmed
- gentleSoft and kind
- soft touchEasily persuaded person
tender loving care · tactfulness · sensitivity · caution · soft · hand · mollycoddle · considerate · coddling · diplomatic · goatskin · thoughtful · carefulness · touch · discretion · eggshells · babying · finesse
kid gloveiron fist
Brutal autocratic rule
heavy hand · heavy-handed · hard-nosed · brass knuckles · strong-arm
kid glovehardball
Uncompromising competitive tactics
blunt · confrontational · aggressive · coercive · forceful