treat with kid gloves

English

Verb

treat with kid gloves (third-person singular simple present treats with kid gloves, present participle treating with kid gloves, simple past and past participle treated with kid gloves)

  1. Synonym of handle with kid gloves.
    • 2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 March 2023:
      Unlike Bing, GPT-4 usually flat-out refused to take the bait when I tried to get it to talk about consciousness, or get it to provide instructions for illegal or immoral activities, and it treated sensitive queries with kid gloves and nuance.
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