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What is Kid Gloves?
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
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
Kid Gloves - video
Kid Gloves - what is it?
A colloquial soccer term for a very young goalkeeper.
The goalkeeper was so young, the newspapers referred to him as Kid Gloves.
What does "Kid Gloves" mean?
figurative gloves that you put on to treat someone or something carefully.
Tom felt like his uncle was wearing kid gloves when he treated him and his girlfriend to dinner.
Kid Gloves - what does it mean?
To treat someone with extra care and
gentleness.
Jean is a little wacky, we will have to treat her it kid gloves....
Kid Gloves - meaning
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.
Gotta use kid gloves on females, because they can't handle reality.