silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoChief Witness Against Gaetz Is Cooperating With House Ethics Investigationwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarej_roby@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoFor anyone else who’d like to speculate why Mr. Gaetz seems to be being treated with kid’s gloves over these allegations, I’d like to remind people who his brother-in-law is.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·9 months agoAh, I did not know that. Fascinating. And quite telling.
minus-squareDjinn@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-29 months ago kid’s gloves It’s “kid gloves.” It refers to gloves made of kid leather, the skin of a young goat. Not a child’s glove. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-of-phrase-with-kid-gloves
For anyone else who’d like to speculate why Mr. Gaetz seems to be being treated with kid’s gloves over these allegations, I’d like to remind people who his brother-in-law is.
Ah, I did not know that. Fascinating. And quite telling.
It’s “kid gloves.” It refers to gloves made of kid leather, the skin of a young goat. Not a child’s glove.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-of-phrase-with-kid-gloves