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be walking/treading on eggshells if you are walking on eggshells, you are trying very hard not to upset someone. It was like walking on eggshells with my father. The smallest thing would make him angry. walk on eggshells to try very hard not to upset someone or something. Everyone at the company was walking on eggshells until we heard that no one would be fired. Etymology: based on the idea that eggshells are easily broken See also: walk |
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By employing a combination of stealth and Swiss Coffee interior eggshell paint clearly identifying these three bins as my very own, I had managed to keep them out of the sweaty clutches of envious neighbors who had let their own bins fall into odorific disrepair. |
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