velvet glove

基本解释

Safety management about the velvet glove.
安全管理讲究外圆内方。
Here, "proffering a velvet glove clutching a closed wallet" involves that Bush posed to be generous, but in fact he did not like to spend money on citizens.
国会中民主党人关于如何对布什的这种态度做出反应仍然带几分疑惑：他戴着一副天鹅绒手套，但却紧紧抓住钱包，不愿将它打开。
With such character I have always emphasized the kind of iron hand in a velvet glove, to force in different ways and much more to like the internalization language in works.
在这样的性格下我强调一种外柔内刚，发力的方式不同，作品上更喜欢内化的语言。

Today British Airways is taking more of a velvet glove approach, but once again, it has New York surrounded.
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Yet Mr Fleishman packs an iron fist inside his velvet glove.
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Inside Mr Letwin's velvet glove there is plenty of steel.
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