soft sawderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Phonetic spelling of soft solder; that is, solder that melts at a lower temperature. Coined by Thomas Haliburton in the short story "The Trotting Horse" (1836). Popular in the 19th century, but out of common use by 1950.

名詞

soft sawder (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, idiomatic) Cajoling or flattery.
   • 1836, Thomas Haliburton, "The Trotting Horse" (1836) — first usage

     If she goes to act ugly, I'll give her a dose of "soft sawder"; that will take the frown out of her frontispiece...!

   • 1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets, The present time

     A sorrowful spectacle to men of reflection, during the time he lasted, that poor M. de Lamartine; with nothing in him but melodious wind and soft sawder, which he and others took for something divine and not diabolic!

   • 1863, Tom Taylor, The Ticket-of-Leave Man

     How the old boy swallowed my soft sawder and Brummagem notes!

参考

• soft soap
• butter up
• sweet-talk

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