| 词汇 | soft soap |
| 词源 | soft soap. A relatively soft, semiliquid soap containing pot- ash, introduced early in the 19th century, inspired the Ameri- canism to soft-soap someone, which dates to about 1830. The soap was oily, as unctuous as a wheedling flatterer. |
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