walk on eggs/eggshells
If you are walking on eggs/eggshells, you are being very careful not to offend someone or do anything wrong:
When my mother is staying at our house, I feel like I'm walking on eggshells.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Paying attention and being careful
- attention
- attention span
- be good, and if you can't be good, be careful idiom
- be on (your) guard idiom
- cautious
- centre
- eye
- focus
- handle/treat sb with kid gloves idiom
- hang
- hang on/upon sth
- have a care idiom
- have/keep your ear to the ground idiom
- middle
- pay
- take note of sth idiom
- the/a glare of sth idiom
- tread carefully/gently/lightly idiom
- walk
- wary
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