tender love and care

tender love and care

Compassionate, caring, protective attention or treatment. Sometimes abbreviated to TLC, especially when using the term more jocularly or lightheartedly. A less common variant of the phrase "tender loving care." I find that giving these patients tender love and care is as beneficial to them as their medication, sometimes more so. Your plants just need a little tender love and care and they'll be green and healthy again in no time!
See also: and, care, love, tender
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • tender loving care
  • TLC
  • come again
  • come again?
  • to coin a phrase
  • you do you
  • touched in the head
  • slip (one's) trolley
  • slip one’s trolley
  • slip trolley