soft-soap
- v persuade someone through flattery
- v use flattering talk on somebody
- Then they soft-soap a racketeer into turning a building he has leased into a dormitory instead of a dive.
- Off the air went Lifebuoy's "Bazooka Bob" Burns and Rinso's soft-soap opera, Big Sister.
- Next job for Minister Eden was to soft-soap Premier Mussolini, clarify his country's position.