handle with kid gloves

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   handle with great care and sensitivity

   “You have to handle the students with kid gloves”

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Questions about handle with kid gloves

What does handle with kid gloves mean?

handle with kid gloves means "handle with great care and sensitivity".

Is handle with kid gloves a common word?

handle with kid gloves is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.