no soap

短语
中文释义

英文释义

短语
  1. It is (or was) a failure. dated,idiomatic,slang
    — I went back down to the men's room on the second floor and yelled his name in front of the private apartments, but no soap.

词源

The phrase appears, with no clear meaning, in a 1755 Samuel Foote nonsense prose poem, "The Grand Panjandrum". In the U.S., soap took on the meaning of money (see OED), and so no soap was a denial of money, say in response to a request for some.
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