219. Walking on Eggshells - Idioms - IELTS Vocabulary - Walking on Eggshells / Be on Eggshells / Walk on Eggshells / On Eggshells /

Walking on Eggshells : 눈치보다 매우 조심스럽게 행동하다, 살얼음판을 걷다, 눈치를 살피다

Be on Eggshells 

Walk on Eggshells 

On Eggshells 

Treading on Eggshells

 

This means that you need to be very very careful in order not to upset or offend somebody

We are walking on eggshells, means that we need to act with great care

Person's patience is eggshells thin, it's very sensitive

We are on eggshells, we are liable to upset all sorts of different people, we have to be careful

He is very mercurial character and one is always treading on eggshells, walking on eggshells when he is around

 

 

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