"I'm stomping on shells
they're splashing my face
because my toes are too pointed to tiptoe on eggs."
To "walk on eggshells" means to proceed warily and with great caution. It's what you would have to do if you literally walked on eggs, since otherwise you would break them and be in for some messy footing.
Sir John Harington, translating Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" from Italian in 1591, wrote: "So soft he treds.As though to tread on eggs he were afraid."
"I'm stomping on shells they're splashing my face because my toes are too pointed to tiptoe on eggs."
To "walk on eggshells" means to proceed warily and with great caution. It's what you would have to do if you literally walked on eggs, since otherwise you would break them and be in for some messy footing.
Sir John Harington, translating Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" from Italian in 1591, wrote: "So soft he treds.As though to tread on eggs he were afraid."