Kid-glove

kid-glove handling

“Hell’s bells, no!” said the discreetly indiscreet Ambassador. “I’m a diplomat now. I've got to don kid glove manners.”

Specifically, Lang and others complain that while the journal has printed many negative articles about HIV skeptics, the orthodoxy has received kid-glove treatment.

It is the policy of the politician to avoid trouble, to soft pedal on principle so that votes will not be lost. But, as day follows night, kid-gloving criminals leads to anarchy.

‘They're all pro-German. We should shoot the leaders, pack the rest off to France. In my opinion, there is too much kid-gloving in this country.’