| 词汇 | soft-soap |
| 释义 | soft-soap verb[ T ] informaluk /ˌsɒftˈsəʊp/ us /ˌsɑːftˈsoʊp/ to try to persuade someone to do what you want by saying pleasant things to them奉承，讨好 Urging & persuading ambulance-chasing argumentation badger be/go on at someoneidiom blag blagger get (something) through (to someone) go on hortatory hustle incitation incitement jockey sales pitch sway uncoerced unconvinced unpersuaded unpersuasive unsalable Examples of soft-soapsoft-soap I can tell him that there is not sufficient soft-soap in the world for that purpose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not want to soft-soap them or to make their life easy—indeed, they do not want that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not some woolly, liberal, soft-soap measure that has come out of some enlightened working party; there is no possibility of caricaturing the proposal in that way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that this consultation is not just a sham exercise to soft-soap an unsuspecting public. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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