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From kid glove.

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handle with kid gloves (三人称単数 現在形 handles with kid gloves, 現在分詞 handling with kid gloves, 過去形および過去分詞形 handled with kid gloves)

1. (idiomatic) To treat something very delicately or carefully.

   The campaign staff cautioned the candidate to handle the issue with kid gloves.

   • 1884, C. H. Spurgeon, “Psalm One Hundred and Nineteen—Verses 113 to 120, Exposition”, in The Treasury of David:  […], volume VI, London: Passmore and Alabaster, 4 paternoster Buildings, page 260:

     He does not trifle with them, or handle them with kid gloves. No, he judges them to be the scum of the earth, and he treats them accordingly by putting them away.

   • 2003 August 3, Stephen Pritchard, “Racist or just anti-Sharon?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     [Richard] Ingrams has always enjoyed a reputation for insensitivity. As with other columnists in the British press, he treads on toes to make his point and rides roughshod over issues that others handle with kid gloves, or avoid altogether.