soap someone up

  • 1soap (someone) up — vb American to flatter, cajole. A phrase used espe cially by adolescents since 2000. It may derive from the earlier phrase to soft soap someone …

    Contemporary slang

  • 2soft soap someone — If you soft soap someone, you flatter them …

    The small dictionary of idiomes

  • 3soft soap someone —    If you soft soap someone, you flatter them.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …

    English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • 4Soft soap someone —   If you soft soap someone, you flatter them …

    Dictionary of English idioms

  • 5soap — /soʊp / (say sohp) noun 1. a substance used for washing and cleansing purposes, usually made by treating a fat with an alkali (as sodium or potassium hydroxide), and consisting chiefly of the sodium or potassium salts of the acids contained in… …

  • 6Soap Lake, Washington — Infobox Settlement official name = Soap Lake, Washington settlement type = City nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = image imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = map caption = mapsize1 = map caption1 = subdivision type = Country… …

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  • 7soap — I UK [səʊp] / US [soʊp] noun Word forms soap : singular soap plural soaps ** 1) [countable/uncountable] a substance that you use with water to wash your body or an object. It can be a liquid, but is usually a solid piece called a bar of soap. 2)… …

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  • 8soap — soap1 S3 [səup US soup] n [: Old English; Origin: sape] 1.) [U and C] the substance that you use to wash your body →↑detergent ▪ Wash thoroughly with soap and water . ▪ a bar of soap 2.) informal …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 9soap — soap1 [ soup ] noun ** 1. ) count or uncount a substance that you use with water to wash your body or an object. It can be a liquid, but is usually a solid piece called a bar of soap. 2. ) count INFORMAL a SOAP OPERA soap soap 2 [ soup ] verb… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 10soap — 1 noun 1 (U) the substance that you use to wash your body: Wash thoroughly with soap and water. | a bar of soap compare detergent 2 (C) informal a television or radio story about the daily lives of the same group of people, which is broadcast… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English