mollycoddle

• “Why, sir," said Jupp, scratching his head reflectively -- he had left his cap under the elm-tree on top of the hill, where he had taken it off when he set about building the fire for the kettle -- "a mollycoddle is a sort of chap as always wraps hisself up keerfully for fear the wind should blow upon him and hurt his complexion.”

  Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle

• “Taft's predecessor, Teddy Roosevelt, clearly was not a big fan, lumping baseball in with what he called "mollycoddle" games.”

  President Obama lobs one up for tradition

• “The pacifist "mollycoddle," as Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him in his”

  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

• “Perhaps the sight of all those happy lads running and jumping and throwing weights had made him feel more than ever his own narrow, confined life, kept out of the society of all the other boys after school hours, and made to play the part of a "mollycoddle," as”

  The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path

• “If he repudiated these ideas, then Jonas would denounce him as a "mollycoddle," a "pink tea Socialist," a "labor faker.”

  100% : The Story of a Patriot

• “Parents have made a conscious decision to "mollycoddle" their children because of concerns that Britain has become more hostile to young people over the last 40 years, the research indicates.”

  Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

• “These are not people you can mollycoddle," he said.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Troubled Heart of Pakistan

• “But the code of silence is preserved by people who blame victims and mollycoddle offenders.”

  My Report report

• “One can understand that companies would make every effort to placate and mollycoddle customers in an effort to drive up sales - wherein being “customer led” and having “customer focus” was less of a genuine corporate belief, but rather a consumerist tactic.”

  Customer Service My Arse « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “HSBC's vast deposit base historically has been both a blessing and a curse: a blessing because it used to enable the bank to generate buckets of cash, pay chunky dividends, mollycoddle staff and ignore shareholders; a curse because it also led the bank over the past decade into an ill-judged international expansion, culminating in the $15 billion acquisition of Household Finance, among the worst financial-services transactions in recent history.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Gulliver's Travails at HSBC

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