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Discover LudwigThe phrase "Handle with kid gloves" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used when advising someone to treat a situation or person delicately or with care. Example: "When discussing sensitive topics, it's important to handle with kid gloves to avoid offending anyone."
Idiom
Kid gloves.
If someone is handled with kid gloves, they are given special treatment and handled with great care.
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There are many texts you should handle with kid gloves, and still others that you should ignore.
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So he's definitely the type to be handled with kid gloves.
He said that he had been turned in by a trainee who did not understand that aggressive residents could not be handled with kid gloves.
Because the European Central Bank put the fear of God into politicians about the consequences of a Greek default, private creditors have been handled with kid gloves.
Dementia and nursing homes and such are something to be whispered about and handled with kid gloves rather than considered a fact of life.
Some fashion publicists predict the cast members from "Girls," the HBO series, will make a fresh impact and will be handled with kid gloves.
It's the argument, familiar from other debates, that you've really arrived only when you no longer need to be handled with kid gloves.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the EU commission, said that if it quit the bloc, "the United Kingdom won't be handled with kid gloves".
Lord Mandelson's condemnation of the strikers is a doubly bitter pill for many of them to swallow, as they watch the bankers, the brokers, the offshore tax avoiders and the super-rich, handled with kid gloves.
"I've been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope," Ms. Palin told a filmmaker in an interview posted on YouTube on Wednesday evening, according to Politico.
On the old continent, issues of race and ethnicity are handled with kid gloves.
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