That was my thought as well. “Catch a tiger by the toe” must have taken on racial connotations after Mr. Woods became a celebrity. I wish they’d at least make an announcement when harmless prose becomes toxic. How is one to ever know???
Eh. They would just continually change the status of things, so one would never know.
Kind of what liberals do with laws and regulations. If you make so many of them that people can't keep them straight, sooner or later someone will break one of them, and then the liberals can use that "transgression" to bend that person over a barrel...if it suits their purpose.
One version goes “catch a n $ gger by the toe”.