[Ads-l] Kid's gloves

[Laurence Horn]

Maybe it’s taboo avoidance. If someone knows that kid gloves are made from kids but are unfamiliar with the baby goat reference for “kid”, it’s safer to interpret it as a goal (as in “baby shoes”) than a source (as in “alligator shoes”). 

LH


> On Oct 28, 2021, at 9:09 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Dave Wilton wrote:
>> Correspondent Kate Riga of Talking Point's Memo spoke of senators
>> treating Joe Manchin with "kid's gloves" on this week's Josh Marshall Podcast.
>> 
>> I guess we're now several generations removed from understanding
>> what kid gloves are made of.
> 
> There are some threads about "kid gloves" in the eggcorns forum. A
> letter published in "The New York Times" in 2009 used "kid's gloves".
> Here are some of the mentioned variants.
> 
> kid's gloves
> kit gloves
> kiddy gloves
> kitten gloves
> kind gloves
> 
> https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3508
> http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1413
> 
> Garson
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