soap : Idioms & Phrases

• noun soap in the form of a bar
  

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• noun soap used as a toiletry
  bath soap; face soap.
  

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• noun soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders
  built-soap powder; washing powder.
  

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• noun a good hard soap made from olive oil and sodium hydroxide
  

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• a fine-grained hard soap, white or mottled, made of olive oil and soda; called also Marseilles, ∨ Venetian, soap.

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• noun soap used as a toiletry
  bath soap; face soap.
  

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• the black oxide of manganese or other substances used by glass makers to take away color from the materials for glass.

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• noun a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases
  green soap.
  

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• any one of a great variety of soaps, of different ingredients and color, which are hard and compact. All solid soaps are of this class.

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• noun a class of synthetic detergents in which the surface-active part of the molecule is the cation
  cationic detergent.
  

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• an insoluble, white, pliable soap made by saponifying an oil (olive oil) with lead oxide; used externally in medicine. Called also lead plaster, diachylon, etc.

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• noun a mild soap for cleansing and conditioning leather
  leather soap.
  

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• noun soap in liquid form
  

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• cocoanut oil soap; so called because, being quite soluble in salt water, it is much used on shipboard.

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• (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.

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• (Med.), pills containing soap and opium.

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• any soap made with potash, esp. the soft soaps, and a hard soap made from potash and castor oil.

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• any hard soap charged with a gritty powder, as silica, alumina, powdered pumice, etc., which assists mechanically in the removal of dirt.

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• a yellow soap containing resin, used in bleaching.

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• (Min.), a kind of clay having a smooth, greasy feel, and adhering to the tongue.

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• noun a mild soap for cleansing and conditioning leather
  leather soap.
  

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• noun toiletry consisting of a preparation of soap and fatty acids that forms a rich lather for softening the beard before shaving
  shaving cream.
  

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• a hard soap containing silicate of soda.
• a cheap soap containing water glass (sodium silicate).

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• . (Bot.) See Quillaia bark.

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• noun a bubble formed by a thin soap film
  

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• a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.

  This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. J. C. Shairp.

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• a cerate formed of soap, olive oil, white wax, and the subacetate of lead, sometimes used as an application to allay inflammation.

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• noun a bathroom or kitchen fixture for holding a bar of soap
  

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• noun dispenser of liquid soap
  

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• the refuse fat of kitchens, slaughter houses, etc., used in making soap.

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• noun a film left on objects after they have been washed in soap
  

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• noun soap that has been cut into flakes to make suds faster
  

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• (Med.), a liniment containing soap, camphor, and alcohol.

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• the hard kernel or seed of the fruit of the soapberry tree, used for making beads, buttons, etc.

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• noun a serialized program usually dealing with sentimentalized family matters that is broadcast on radio or television (frequently sponsored by a company advertising soap products)
  

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• noun a cleaning pad containing soap
  

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• (Bot.), one of several plants used in the place of soap, as the Chlorogalum pomeridianum, a California plant, the bulb of which, when stripped of its husk and rubbed on wet clothes, makes a thick lather, and smells not unlike new brown soap. It is called also soap apple, soap bulb, and soap weed.

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• noun soap in powdered form mixed with alkaline builders
  built-soap powder; washing powder.
  

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• noun tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States
  Yucca elata; soap tree; soapweed.
  

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• . (Bot.) Same as Soapberry tree.

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• noun a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make hearths and tabletops and ornaments
  soapstone; steatite; soaprock.
  

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• noun tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States
  Yucca elata; soap tree; soapweed.
  

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• a soap containing a sodium salt. The soda soaps are all hard soaps.

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• noun flattery designed to gain favor
  coaxing; blarney; sweet talk.
  
• noun a soft (or liquid) soap made from vegetable oils; used in certain skin diseases
  green soap.
  

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• a soap of a gray or brownish yellow color, and of a slimy, jellylike consistence, made from potash or the lye from wood ashes. It is strongly alkaline and often contains glycerin, and is used in scouring wood, in cleansing linen, in dyehouses, etc. Figuratively, flattery; wheedling; blarney. Colloq.

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• verb persuade someone through flattery
  
• verb use flattering talk on somebody
  

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• noun soap used as a toiletry
  bath soap; face soap.
  

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• hard soap for the toilet, usually colored and perfumed.

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• . See Castile soap, under Soap.

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• a scented soap well known for its excellence.

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