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Favorite old timey expressions


Danny: For your sake, beautiful, I hope you're not tryina soft-soap me. I wouldn't take too kindly to it. [pushes her]

I can guess at the meaning from the context but why “soft soap”? 😆

I also liked cop’s directive to call for the “meat wagon” which, I assume is a coroner’s wagon or hearse.

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