A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles .

We can mollycoddle children but it isn't ultimately going to benefit them.

While they mollycoddle him, Debbie opts for the tough-love approach, reminding Andy that he's got two young children who depend on him and telling him that suicide is the coward's way out.

We don't mollycoddle them - horses need to know that starting stalls are not to be feared.

NHS family planning "experts" fall over themselves to mollycoddle promiscuous young women.

PETE: All we can do is offer advice to our children, I certainly don't think we mollycoddle them, however you have to worry about them.

I've never been one to mollycoddle young players and I'm sure Nugent expects to be treated like any other professional.

Maybe the US runners have a distinct advantage because they train and run on dirt, but I can guarantee that if they concentrated solely on turf racing in the US they would dominate that as well, for the simple reason they do not mollycoddle their horses.

To mollycoddle criminals is to mock our system of justice.

People becoming more and more idle with an inability to walk from the car parks in the village, shopkeepers parking outside their own shops all day and finally the council's insistence on trying to mollycoddle the people from having to think for themselves.

Gabby Agbonlahor will not mollycoddle Villa's young guns.