What do you know about the phrase 'to kill someone with kindness'?
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It means to go so overboard with kind acts that you actually do more harm than good. eg if you bought a 10 gallon ice cream bucket for a child in hospital with tonsils and sat there waiting for them to eat it all.
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From Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew "This is the way to kill a wife with kindess" http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/6/messages/656.html Overwhelm or harm someone with mistaken or excessive benevolence. For example, Aunt Mary constantly sends Jane chocolates and cake and other goodies, even though she's been told Jane's on a diet--nothing like killing with kindness. This expression originated as kill with kindness as fond apes do their young (presumably crushing them to death in a hug) and was a proverb by the mid-1500s. http://www.answers.com/Kill%20with%20Kindness
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When some one does something really offensive to you, you do everything good possible to them that you can so that they have to reconsider the action that took against you before.
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