It means to treat a person kindly or gently, especially in a situation where you might be expected to be angry with him.

VOA: special.2010.08.29

If a friend keeps asking you to do something you do not want to do, you might ask him to leave you alone or "stop bugging me."

VOA: special.2009.06.28

"If you get a doctor who is away in the village and has come across a case he or she thinks is beyond him or her, why cannot that doctor be able to link up easily with a senior doctor in Korle Bu to get advice on it?

VOA: special.2009.06.17

These days,you can find him in the recording studio working on a new album, on tour overseas or playing at a club near his home in Mississippi.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"You know,I was playing basketball with so and so and so maybe I can go ask him or her, 'and that resource gets embedded in their head,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Break up with you or something? No, I broke up with him.

VOA: standard.other

"And the relation with Israel within two years allowed Turkey to tell the Syrians you either kick him out or we will come in there to pick him up and it worked."

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

"If an actress is getting older and you can tell by looking at her or him that they have had plastic surgery, then that takes away what people liked about that actor in the first place."

VOA: standard.2010.07.22