soft soap

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soft soap

1. A fluid or semifluid soap.

2. Informal Flattery; cajolery.

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soft soap

1. (Medicine) med another name for green soap

2. informal flattering, persuasive, or cajoling talk

informal to use such talk on (a person)

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soft′ soap′

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.

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Noun	1.	soft soap - flattery designed to gain favor blarney, coaxing, sweet talk flattery - excessive or insincere praise
	2.	soft soap - a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases green soap soap - a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats

soft soap

noun

Informal. Excessive, ingratiating praise:

adulation, blandishment, blarney, flattery, incense, oil, slaver.

Idiom: honeyed words.

verbsoft-soap

1. 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.

Translations

Schmus

adulazione

soft soap

n (fam) → saponata, lusinghe fpl

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