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Kid-glove   /kɪd-gləv/   Listen
Kid-glove

adjective
1.
Showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people.  Synonym: tactful.  "A tactful way of correcting someone" , "The agency got the kid-glove treatment on Capitol Hill"






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"Kid-glove" Quotes from Famous Books



... by making her, while young, fetch up a little bag of shot from the bottom of a bathtub in my room. By throwing this into deeper water, gradually, she would soon go down to a great depth for it. A charge of shot, tied up in a piece of white kid-glove, with a "neck" left to hold on by, is a good object for the purpose, as it is readily seen in deep water, and teaches the animal, besides, to nip gingerly,—a valuable qualification in a retriever. I remember ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various



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