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soft soap
soft soapn.1. A fluid or semifluid soap.2. Informal Flattery; cajolery.soft soap n 1. (Medicine) med another name for green soap 2. informal flattering, persuasive, or cajoling talk vb informal to use such talk on (a person) soft′ soap′
n. 1. persuasive talk; flattery. 2. the semifluid soap produced when potassium hydroxide is used in the saponification of a fat or an oil. [1625–35] soft′-soap′, v.t., v.i. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  soft soap - flattery designed to gain favor blarney, coaxing, sweet talkflattery - excessive or insincere praise | | 2. |  soft soap - a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseasesgreen soapsoap - a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats |
soft soapnounInformal. Excessive, ingratiating praise:adulation, blandishment, blarney, flattery, incense, oil, slaver.Idiom: honeyed words.verbsoft-soap1. Informal. To persuade or try to persuade by gentle persistent urging or flattery:blandish, cajole, coax, honey, wheedle.Informal: sweet-talk.2. Informal. To compliment excessively and ingratiatingly:adulate, blandish, butter up, flatter, honey, slaver.Informal: sweet-talk.Translationssoft soap
soft soap1. noun Flattering, cajoling talk meant to persuade someone, obtain something, or achieve a particular outcome. Don't let his soft soap get the better of you—he's only interested in himself. You think you can get whatever you want with a bit of soft soap, but some things in life have to be earned.2. To persuade someone about something or persuade someone to do something, especially through the use of charm, flattery, or cajolery. Sometimes hyphenated. That weasel Mike is always trying to soft-soap the boss to get things done the way he wants. You'll never soft soap grandma, Jake—she's too shrewd for that.See also: soap, softsoft soap 1. flattering talk; sweet talk. I don't mind a little soft soap. It won't affect what I decide, though. Don't waste my time with soft soap. I know you don't mean it. 2. (Usually soft-soap.) to attempt to convince someone (of something) by gentle persuasion. We couldn't soft-soap her into it. Don't try to soft-soap her. she's an old battle-ax.See also: soap, softsoft soapFlattery, cajolery, as in She's only six but she's learned how to get her way with soft soap. This colloquial expression alludes to liquid soap, likening its slippery quality to insincere flattery. Its figurative use was first recorded in 1830. See also: soap, softsoft soap persuasive flattery. The underlying idea is of soft soap (literally a type of semi-fluid soap) being lubricative and unctuous.See also: soap, softsoft soap1. n. flattering talk; sweet talk. I don’t mind a little soft soap. It won’t affect what I do, though. 2. tv. to attempt to convince someone (of something) by gentle persuasion. Don’t try to soft soap her. She’s an old battle-ax. See also: soap, softsoft soapFlattery. The analogy here is to a slithery, unctuous substance (which describes soft soap), and it has been drawn since the first half of the nineteenth century. “To see them flattering and soft soaping me all over,” wrote John Neal (John Beedle’s Sleigh Ride, ca. 1840). A contemporary synonym, now obsolete, was soft sawder, a substance used for soldering. It was still used in the 1940s but is seldom heard today.See also: soap, softEncyclopediaSeesoapMedicalSeeSOAPsoft soap
Related to soft soap: Hard soapSynonyms for soft soapnoun excessive, ingratiating praiseSynonyms- adulation
- blandishment
- blarney
- flattery
- incense
- oil
- slaver
verb to persuade or try to persuade by gentle persistent urging or flatterySynonyms- blandish
- cajole
- coax
- honey
- wheedle
- sweet-talk
verb to compliment excessively and ingratiatinglySynonyms- adulate
- blandish
- butter up
- flatter
- honey
- slaver
- sweet-talk
Synonyms for soft soapnoun flattery designed to gain favorSynonymsRelated Wordsnoun a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oilsSynonymsRelated Words |