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Soft-soap   /sɑft-soʊp/   Listen
Soft-soap

verb
1.
Persuade someone through flattery.
2.
Use flattering talk on somebody.





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"Soft-soap" Quotes from Famous Books



... do the other thing; he can please himself which. I don't care a hang. He said that if I would marry him soon he would let me continue the singing lessons and get me a lovely piano,—all the soft-soap men always give a girl beforehand. I wonder did he think me one of the folks who would swallow it? Couldn't I see as soon as I was married all the privileges I would get would be to settle down and drudge all the time till I was broken down and telling the same ...
— Some Everyday Folk and Dawn • Miles Franklin
... I told you a hundred times that running a horse through drifts like you do ruins 'em? No, don't try to soft-soap me, Judith! When you kids want a favor from me, don't come up with your horses dripping sweat in below ...
— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie
... got too much sense to try to stir up a row and rouse hard feelin's between us at the start," said Isom, coming forward with his soft-soap of flattery ...
— The Bondboy • George W. (George Washington) Ogden


Words linked to "Soft-soap" :   blandish, sweet-talk, flatter, palaver, coax, inveigle, blarney, cajole, wheedle


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