wrap in cotton wool
English
Verb
wrap in cotton wool (third-person singular simple present wraps in cotton wool, present participle wrapping in cotton wool, simple past and past participle wrapped in cotton wool)
- (idiomatic) To treat delicately, to baby, to coddle.
- 2015 October 1, Kate Hardy, Falling for Mr. December, Harlequin, →ISBN:
- 'A word to the wise—don't wrap him in cotton wool, because he'll resent it later.
- 2014 December 21, A K Michaels, Supernatural Enforcement Bureau, Bureau Under Siege: Book 3, A K Michaels:
- But you can't wrap me in cotton wool.
- 2022 February 3, George Lewis, DON'T PANIC!: All the Stuff the Expectant Dad Needs to Know, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
- All the Stuff the Expectant Dad Needs to Know George Lewis ... Because it must be hard,' that I even allowed myself to admit to myself that, yes, it was quite hard. ... But she didn't wrap him up in cotton wool and always tried to […]
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Further reading
- “wrap in cotton wool” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.