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Kid Gloves
A euphemism meaning "one must handle carefully"
To treat someone with a different set of standards, different language, different expectations.
To soft-talk an individual, sparing them the gory details of reality.
To treat someone with a different set of standards, different language, different expectations.
To soft-talk an individual, sparing them the gory details of reality.
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kid gloves tough love
The version of tough love where the parent (typically) has to tippy-toe the tough love, rather than do smash-their-car- level tough love.
Variants: tippy-toe tough love Antonym: smash-their-car-level tough love
Variants: tippy-toe tough love Antonym: smash-their-car-level tough love
Child: Pick my hanger up
Parent: No
Child (still in bed at midday): But you knocked it down
Parent: Its for your own good. GET OUT OF BED AND PICK THE *** THING UP YOURSELF
Child: !
Parent: Kid gloves tough love, sweetie, kid gloves tough love
Parent: No
Child (still in bed at midday): But you knocked it down
Parent: Its for your own good. GET OUT OF BED AND PICK THE *** THING UP YOURSELF
Child: !
Parent: Kid gloves tough love, sweetie, kid gloves tough love
kid gloves tough love by gmaroz May 21, 2021
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)