Scott Sutton, The Chicago Sun-Times, 14 Jan. Ted Cruz have taken the kiddie gloves off and have finally started to pummel each other, specifically with Trump going after Cruz for being born in Canada. On rare occasions we see the phrase altered to a diminutive form, which suggests that children, not goats, may have been what the writer had in mind. Though it might be reasonable to hear kid gloves and think of the kind of gloves worn by kids-as in children, perhaps like a mitten clipped to a coat sleeve-it's not clear how many people interpret the phrase this way. Judy Blume, Then Again, Maybe I Won't, 1986 What's the point?" She repeated "What's the point?" over and over as she left the room. "You raise them with kid gloves and then they walk all over you. She turned to my father and spoke very slow. I wanted my mother to yell back at me, but she didn't. This, the most serious menace to the cause of good government, cannot be handled with kid gloves. The earliest citation shown in the Oxford English Dictionary is from James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce in his 1888 work The American Commonwealth, and by the 20th century the phrase connoted timidity or fecklessness:īut in exposing the alliance of Tammany Hall and the unscrupulous corporation managers, should not have shrunk from mentioning names. Use of the figurative phrase with kid gloves took hold by the end of the 19th century. Kid-glove was entered in the 1909 Webster's New International Dictionary as an adjective meaning "wearing kid gloves hence, characterized by the fastidiousness, daintiness, or delicacy looked for in those who wear kid gloves." Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance, 1852
Our faces took the sunburn kindly our chests gained in compass, and our shoulders in breadth and squareness our great brown fists looked as if they had never been capable of kid gloves. To the rougher classes, however, the gloves might have seemed a delicate affectation: Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1865 It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, "Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!" The White Rabbit carries a pair in Alice in Wonderland:
It was the material used to make the classic white gloves worn by house servants, for example, or by those handling museum artifacts.īefore long, kid gloves were associated with the aristocracy, a staple of foppish characters. Kid leather is soft and smooth, making it a perfect material for handling objects (such as silverware) without leaving smudges. Horrible's take on the character isn't as righteous as his Backyardigans counterpart, and his powers are vastly different, as he possesses super strength and super speed but not an actual hammer.The 'kid' in 'kid gloves' is a young goat, not a young person. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog also features a superhero character known as Captain Hammer, complete with a very similar uniform. He reprises this role in the Nintendo DS game. His unused original design included a white shirt, a blue cape, and no mask.Īustin has played Captain Hammer in one episode of The Backyardigans: " Race to the Tower of Power" from season one. He also sports dark blue gloves, a dark blue mask, and dark blue pants. He wears a metallic blue shirt with darker blue rims and a hammer emblem on the front. He has the ability to build anything with a small blue hammer, which he carries with him at all times.Ĭaptain Hammer is primarily purple. He is Weather Woman's friend and partner. " Race to the Tower of Power" Captain Hammer is a superhero played by Austin.
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