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单词 to have a soft corner for
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to have a soft corner for
P4. to have a soft corner for and variants: = to have a soft spot for at soft spot n. Phrases. Now chiefly South Asian.
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1927 ‘A. A. Horn’ & E. Lewis Trader Horn xix. 203 It's in the make-up of the natural man that he keeps a soft corner for a bit of a battle.
1967 Link (Delhi) 15 Aug. in Asian Surv. (1969) Nov. 802 Even policemen seem to have a soft corner for Kanu, the misguided dreamer.
1988 Mod. Asian Stud. 22 560 He had clearly a soft corner for Phoonsen, a man more sinned against than sinning.
2006 Statesman (India) (Nexis) 15 Apr. People of north Kolkata have a soft corner for sweets.
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