英语词汇soft sawder的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	soft sawder
词源	soft sawder. To flatter someone, talk a lot of blarney; an old term that is still heard occasionally, though it isn’t recorded in most dictionaries. The derivation is unclear, apparently having something to do with “soldier,” but it is first recorded in Thomas C. Haliburton’s The Clockmaker (1836): “If she goes to act ugly, I’ll give her a dose of ‘soft sawder.’ ”
随便看	no better than she should be noble experiment noble science noblesse oblige nobody but nobody undersells gimbels nobody home nobody loves goliath nobody never hit nobody nobody-s land no-brainer no bucks no buck rogers no can do no chain on the bike no cheese no bees no trees no comment no dice no flies on him no good deed goes unpunished no great shakes no hits no runs no errors no holds barred nohow no ifs ands or buts about it noisette noisome

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