Ever need a fact or quotation on soap? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term “soap,” including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for soap, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

Familiar Quotations

Soap

Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.–John Aughey

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is the soap-on-the-rope.–Bill Cosby

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.–Boy George

With soap baptism is a good thing.–Robert Ingersoll

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.–Jewish Proverb

Soap – "Bribe"

Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.–Robert Jackson

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.–Gottfried Reinhardt

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.–Thornton Wilder

Use in Literature

Soap

Let him put the soap on, and then tap him gently.–Edward Hamilton Aitken in Behind the Bungalow.

Another firm sent us soap enough for five years, and one uses a good deal of that commodity even on a Polar voyage.–Roald Amundsen in The South Pole, vols 1 and 2.

There could hardly be a worse or more dangerous path over the high and precipitous hills; these were once more cretaceous, and in wet weather must be as slippery as soap.–Samuel White Baker in Cyprus, as I Saw it in 1879.

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Soap 1
• Soap – "Bribe" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Soap 2
• Soap – "Boxes" 10
• Soap – "Bribe" 10
• Soap – "Cakes" 12
• Soap – "Candles" 12
• Soap – "Clean" 13
• Soap – "Clothes" 14
• Soap – "Finding" 15
• Soap – "Great" 15
• Soap – "Hair" 16
• Soap – "Hand" 17
• Soap – "Hard" 17
• Soap – "Hot" 18
• Soap – "Houses" 19
• Soap – "Large" 19
• Soap – "Lather" 20
• Soap – "Little" 21
• Soap – "Make" 22
• Soap – "Man" 24
• Soap – "Morning" 25
• Soap – "Mother" 25
• Soap – "Piece" 25
• Soap – "Room" 26
• Soap – "Skin" 27
• Soap – "Soft" 28
• Soap – "Sugar" 28
• Soap – "Think" 29
• Soap – "Warm" 29
• Soap – "Washed" 30
• Soap – "Water" 32
• Soap – "White" 35
• Soap – "Women" 35
• Nonfiction Usage 37
• Script Usage 37
• Song Title Usage 38
• Bible Usage 38
• Journalism Usage 39
• Legal Usage 58
• Governmental Usage 60
• Patent Usage 63
• Bibliographic Usage 123
• Encyclopedic Usage 183
• Lexicographic Usage 249
• Index 361