soft option
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He argued that defending literature purely for its sentimental value encourages the belief that “the humanities is easy, a soft option; that the humanities doesn’t train thinkers”.
From Economist • Mar. 8, 2018
“The verdict of manslaughter therefore is not a soft option and doesn’t amount to saying that what he didn’t wasn’t all that bad, or that he deserves sympathy and understanding,” Owen implored the jury.
From Time • Nov. 4, 2016
Anon was hopeless at football and rugby, always the last person to be picked for the school side: Nick Bell took up fencing as a soft option to rugby.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2012
The sad truth is that when they have to pay down that debt, the soft option is jobs and conditions.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2010
It is far too easy, and would merely have become a "soft option" and a refuge for the destitute.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
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