Not Kid Gloves Meaning

Cobuild advanced english dictionary.

Not kid gloves meaning. Treat somebody very carefully and gently because you do not want to upset them or make them angry. Kid gloves were considered ostentatious and an affectation. Ok so seriously kid gloves were made from the skin of a young goat or lamb or similar.

The term handle with kid gloves thus means to be very gentle or tactful. Plural noun oft with n if you treat someone or something with kid gloves or if you give them the kid glove treatment you are very careful in the way you deal with them. Kid gloves are gloves that are made out of leather made from kid goat.

Kid gloves are simply gloves made from kid leather in other words the skin from a young goat. Copyright harpercollins publishers. In a very gentle or careful way.

With special care in order to avoid causing damage or offense. We will look at the definition of the term handle with kid gloves where it came from and some examples of its use in sentences. To soft talk an individual sparing them the gory details of reality.

The kid in kid gloves is a young goat not a young person. And i m not kidding kiddo. Learner s definition of kid gloves.

He s very temperamental and needs to be treated with kid gloves. They date from the 18th century though early ones were often made from the more available lambskin. In presidential campaigns foreign policy is treated with kid gloves.