"wrap in cotton wool" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "wrapping in cotton wool",
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    },
    {
      "form": "wrapped in cotton wool",
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      "form": "wrapped in cotton wool",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015 October 1, Kate Hardy, Falling for Mr. December, Harlequin",
          "text": "'A word to the wise—don't wrap him in cotton wool, because he'll resent it later.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 December 21, A K Michaels, Supernatural Enforcement Bureau, Bureau Under Siege: Book 3, A K Michaels",
          "text": "But you can't wrap me in cotton wool.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 3, George Lewis, DON'T PANIC!: All the Stuff the Expectant Dad Needs to Know, Hachette UK",
          "text": "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[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 42",
          "text": "\"[…] He told me what to expect, he didn't wrap me in cotton wool, and was always a great guide who treated me the same as everybody else, which is really what I needed. He didn't treat me any differently from the male managers in his team. I got a bollocking the same way everyone else did!\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "To treat delicately, to baby, to coddle."
      ],
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          "treat"
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          "delicately",
          "delicately"
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          "coddle"
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        "(idiomatic) To treat delicately, to baby, to coddle."
      ],
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      ]
    }
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  "word": "wrap in cotton wool"
}

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          "ref": "2015 October 1, Kate Hardy, Falling for Mr. December, Harlequin",
          "text": "'A word to the wise—don't wrap him in cotton wool, because he'll resent it later.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 December 21, A K Michaels, Supernatural Enforcement Bureau, Bureau Under Siege: Book 3, A K Michaels",
          "text": "But you can't wrap me in cotton wool.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 3, George Lewis, DON'T PANIC!: All the Stuff the Expectant Dad Needs to Know, Hachette UK",
          "text": "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[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 January 24, Dyan Perry talks to Nick Brodrick, “The industry has given me so much”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 42",
          "text": "\"[…] He told me what to expect, he didn't wrap me in cotton wool, and was always a great guide who treated me the same as everybody else, which is really what I needed. He didn't treat me any differently from the male managers in his team. I got a bollocking the same way everyone else did!\"",
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        "To treat delicately, to baby, to coddle."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic) To treat delicately, to baby, to coddle."
      ],
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  "word": "wrap in cotton wool"
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