英语词汇soapy sam的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Soapy Sam. The first Soapy Sam, Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Oxford and later Winchester, was a nonconformist and con- troversial clergyman if ever there was one. Wilberforce, son of the great antislavery leader William Wilberforce, tried to steer a middle course between High Church and Low Church fac- tions in England. Although a devout man in his personal life, this position forced him to develop a suave, unctuous manner of speaking, persuasive but versatile and expedient almost to a fault. By 1860 he had earned the nickname Soapy Sam, which has since been applied to any slippery, unctuous speaker who can talk his way out of anything. The coining was perhaps given an assist by the initials “S.O.A.P.” on the floral decorations above the stall where he preached—these standing for the names Sam Oxon and Alfred Port. Once someone asked him about the nickname and he assured his questioner that he was called Soapy Sam “Because I am often in hot water and always come out with clean hands.” Bishop Wilberforce died in 1873, aged 68.

词汇	soapy sam
词源	Soapy Sam. The first Soapy Sam, Samuel Wilberforce, bishop of Oxford and later Winchester, was a nonconformist and con- troversial clergyman if ever there was one. Wilberforce, son of the great antislavery leader William Wilberforce, tried to steer a middle course between High Church and Low Church fac- tions in England. Although a devout man in his personal life, this position forced him to develop a suave, unctuous manner of speaking, persuasive but versatile and expedient almost to a fault. By 1860 he had earned the nickname Soapy Sam, which has since been applied to any slippery, unctuous speaker who can talk his way out of anything. The coining was perhaps given an assist by the initials “S.O.A.P.” on the floral decorations above the stall where he preached—these standing for the names Sam Oxon and Alfred Port. Once someone asked him about the nickname and he assured his questioner that he was called Soapy Sam “Because I am often in hot water and always come out with clean hands.” Bishop Wilberforce died in 1873, aged 68.
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