onion-skinned

Very sensitive or emotionally susceptible to the verbal attacks or criticisms of others. Most commonly used in Southeast Asian English in which the term is a translation of the Tagalog phrase balat sibuyas. You can't remain onion-skinned if you want to succeed in the entertainment industry. For how much she mocks other people, you wouldn't think she'd be so onion-skinned herself.

See also:

be onion-skinned (about something)
skinned
thin-skinned
be thick-skinned
thick-skinned
(one) can dish it out, but (one) can't take it
dish
slings and arrows
the slings and arrows
shoulder the burden (of something)

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