walking on eggs

Being especially careful. Even more than tiptoeing, the image of walking so gingerly that you wouldn't crack eggs is especially apt, for example, in broaching a sensitive subject, as in “When I brought up the subject of her ex-marriage, I felt as though I was walking on eggs.”

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Mukesh	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali
Chizoba	-	Western African, Igbo
Veronika	vye-rah-NEE-kah (Russian), vee-rah-NEE-kah (Russian), ve-RO-nee-kah (German, Croatian)	Russian, Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Swedish, Norweg
Collen	['kɔlin]
Masuyo	mah-soo-yo	Japanese
Eugenia	[ju:'dʒi:njə]