SOFT-SOAP


Meaning of SOFT-SOAP in English

( soft-soaps, soft-soaping, soft-soaped)

If you soft-soap someone, you flatter them or tell them what you think they want to hear in order to try and persuade them to do something.

The government is not soft-soaping the voters here.

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