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 Soft Soap.Soft Fire makes Sweet Malt (A). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Soft as Soap
 
—as “silk,” as “velvet.” (See SIMILES.)   1
 


 Soft Soap.Soft Fire makes Sweet Malt (A). 

 
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