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Definition of soft soap in English: soft soapnoun mass noun1A semi-fluid soap, especially one made with potassium rather than sodium salts. 软肥皂；液皂；半液体皂 Example sentencesExamples - Before using the insecticide, mix in a little soft soap, or soapy water, so that it adheres to the plants.
- Making the soft soap as well as actually doing the wash required a plentiful supply of water with the right pH balance, which could be corrected by adding soda or lye.
- He worked down a pit, just like his father before him, and mining folk never use soft soap, either literally or figuratively.
- If a little soft soap is dissolved with the mixture, it adheres much better to the foliage and is not so easily washed off by rain.
- Slick, soft soap slipped humorously through my fingers, and my hand dove to catch it.
- So passed Sunday, and Monday morning he was hard at work, sorting clothes, while Joe, a towel bound tightly around his head, with groans and blasphemies, was running the washer and mixing soft-soap.
- Mr Mason and his brother Charles had been running a soap company in Burlington Lane manufacturing soft soap, furniture polish and metal polish, when they foresaw a good trade for boot polish and engaged a chemist to devise a formula.
2informal Persuasive flattery. 〈非正式〉奉承，谄媚 he started treating us as grown-ups, telling it straight with no soft soap Example sentencesExamples - Governments will lay aside the soft soap and start levelling with us: ‘Look, we don't know.
- This is not the brave new world we were sold, like so much soft soap, by untold motion picture, pulp novel, and television traveling salesmen.
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
- A broad smile split Ben's face, but something in Larrimore's expression made him wonder what all this soft soap was intended to prepare him for.
Synonyms persuasion, wheedling, coaxing, inveiglement
verb [with object]informal Use flattery in order to persuade or cajole (someone) to do something. 〈非正式〉用奉承诱使…做事 timeshare touts try to soft-soap you into buying abroad Example sentencesExamples - Keep it curt, Kenny, and stop soft-soaping us with your loquacity and verbosity.
- It is very easy to get cut off from ground reality in the face of rampant sophistry and soft-soaping in the corridors.
- They're going to allow us to continue hunting while the legal arguments go ahead, but that's just an attempt to soft-soap us so they won't have a fight when it comes to the General Election.
- A group of Yorkshire housewives who refused to be soft-soaped in a row over hanging out their washing are celebrating victory.
- That's easy: The empire has a horrendous debt load and Izzy was an old pro at soft-soaping the banks.
- LaBute probably empathizes with Byatt's 19 th-century poet Randolph Henry Ash, a tortured fool for love who is able to soft-soap intelligent women despite the ‘soft-core misogyny’ of his poetry.
- The links between dating and PR are obvious: there's the importance of self-presentation, a good phone manner, and an instinct for when to soft-soap or to hard-sell.
- King touched his gloves in a gesture of congratulation, but Benn was not going to be soft-soaped by the promoter he reckoned had wanted him beaten.
- There was no soft-soaping amongst the Councillors for the sake of the newcomer.
- They may have been soft-soaping us, but ‘forget those casinos, give us a castle any time’ seemed to be their mantra.
- Berbizier was never likely to soft-soap the situation in Italy.
Synonyms charm, attract, enchant, entrance, win over, woo, captivate, bewitch, spellbind, dazzle, blind, hypnotize, mesmerize, seduce, tempt, lead on, lure, entice, ensnare, entrap
Definition of soft soap in US English: soft soapnounsôft ˈsōpsɔft ˈsoʊp 1A semifluid soap, especially one made with potassium rather than sodium salts. 软肥皂；液皂；半液体皂 Example sentencesExamples - Slick, soft soap slipped humorously through my fingers, and my hand dove to catch it.
- So passed Sunday, and Monday morning he was hard at work, sorting clothes, while Joe, a towel bound tightly around his head, with groans and blasphemies, was running the washer and mixing soft-soap.
- Making the soft soap as well as actually doing the wash required a plentiful supply of water with the right pH balance, which could be corrected by adding soda or lye.
- Mr Mason and his brother Charles had been running a soap company in Burlington Lane manufacturing soft soap, furniture polish and metal polish, when they foresaw a good trade for boot polish and engaged a chemist to devise a formula.
- He worked down a pit, just like his father before him, and mining folk never use soft soap, either literally or figuratively.
- If a little soft soap is dissolved with the mixture, it adheres much better to the foliage and is not so easily washed off by rain.
- Before using the insecticide, mix in a little soft soap, or soapy water, so that it adheres to the plants.
2informal Persuasive flattery. 〈非正式〉奉承，谄媚 he started treating us as grown-ups, telling it straight with no soft soap Example sentencesExamples - A broad smile split Ben's face, but something in Larrimore's expression made him wonder what all this soft soap was intended to prepare him for.
- This is not the brave new world we were sold, like so much soft soap, by untold motion picture, pulp novel, and television traveling salesmen.
- Governments will lay aside the soft soap and start levelling with us: ‘Look, we don't know.
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair.
Synonyms persuasion, wheedling, coaxing, inveiglement
verbsôft ˈsōpsɔft ˈsoʊp [with object]informal Use flattery in order to persuade or cajole (someone) to do something. 〈非正式〉用奉承诱使…做事 timeshare touts try to soft-soap you into buying abroad Example sentencesExamples - It is very easy to get cut off from ground reality in the face of rampant sophistry and soft-soaping in the corridors.
- LaBute probably empathizes with Byatt's 19 th-century poet Randolph Henry Ash, a tortured fool for love who is able to soft-soap intelligent women despite the ‘soft-core misogyny’ of his poetry.
- They're going to allow us to continue hunting while the legal arguments go ahead, but that's just an attempt to soft-soap us so they won't have a fight when it comes to the General Election.
- A group of Yorkshire housewives who refused to be soft-soaped in a row over hanging out their washing are celebrating victory.
- Berbizier was never likely to soft-soap the situation in Italy.
- They may have been soft-soaping us, but ‘forget those casinos, give us a castle any time’ seemed to be their mantra.
- King touched his gloves in a gesture of congratulation, but Benn was not going to be soft-soaped by the promoter he reckoned had wanted him beaten.
- There was no soft-soaping amongst the Councillors for the sake of the newcomer.
- The links between dating and PR are obvious: there's the importance of self-presentation, a good phone manner, and an instinct for when to soft-soap or to hard-sell.
- That's easy: The empire has a horrendous debt load and Izzy was an old pro at soft-soaping the banks.
- Keep it curt, Kenny, and stop soft-soaping us with your loquacity and verbosity.
Synonyms charm, attract, enchant, entrance, win over, woo, captivate, bewitch, spellbind, dazzle, blind, hypnotize, mesmerize, seduce, tempt, lead on, lure, entice, ensnare, entrap
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