A year after the Justice Department decided not to bring charges against Representative Matt Gaetz in a sex-trafficking investigation, the House Ethics Committee is moving forward with an inquiry into him.
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.
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.
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
Ah, I did not know that. Fascinating. And quite telling.