no soap

短语

不行,不知道,没有用

释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    It is (or was) a failure.

    过时 习语 俚语

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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