What's Tread Softly Mean?
To Proceed Carefully If You're Thinking About Asking for a Raise, I Advise You to Tread Lightly. What Does It Mean When Someone Tells You to Tread Lightly?...
: to proceed carefully If you're thinking about asking for a raise, I advise you to tread lightly.
What does it mean when someone tells you to tread lightly?
(idiomatic) To proceed carefully; especially, to seek to avoid causing offense. He's in a bad mood today, so you might want to tread lightly if you talk to him.
Where did the term tread lightly come from?
The origin of the phrase tread lightly is unknown, but the most famous example dates back to the poem “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W. B. Yeats on Poets.org. Yeats writes, as one of the most famous examples of all time: I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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