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Chris -- 2018-04-11
As an idiom, ‘soft-soap’ means to soothe or persuade by flattery. The eggcorn version is a bit more literal- soothing by immersion and softening. Rare.
She can soft soak you in feeling sorry for her then you are just as disillusioned as her …
www.smn-news.com/.../2271-statement-by- … liams.html
I believe ya Brian, what do we do now to soft soak her into a little bitty small jar of it, got any overwhelming ideas.
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... McCain has not helped the Republican cause in the House but tried to soft soak them into taking the Democraps ideas.
ronpaulblog.com/2008/09/24/700-billion/
Virdiramo can soft soak us all he wants. We are tapped out Joe!
www.tbnewswatch.com/news/77185/Water-work
They will soft-soak us with ‘support the troops’ (like we would let them down) then proceed to waste money on junk. ...
pfsbacn.blogspot.com/2010/01/state-of-america.html
“And then this week we get another situation where all weekend I’ve had the Lithuanian trying to twist my arm, first of all to soft soak me …
www.londonhearts.com/scores/mrep/20051029069.htm
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I like this one and it may not be quite so literal – ‘soak’ meaning to charge an exorbitant price is still current I think, and together with soft is a rather accurate way of referring to the confidence trickery apparent in Ken’s examples.
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