soap flakes
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of soap flakes
An Americanism dating back to 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Rockwell died amid a flurry of Ivory Snow soap flakes.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2017
Perhaps my nostalgia wasn’t for a time when women scrubbed floors with wooden brushes and soap flakes but for the time, much more recently, when dreaming of the past felt like good clean fun.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2017
Cold air and soap flakes lighted to look like falling snow make you feel the chill of the Battle of the Bulge.
From Southern Living • Jan. 18, 2012
The story until then has the sure, mellow complexity of Mozart�at the end it degenerates into the kind of opera that advertises soap flakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a child I was taught, for example, that the words soap in soap flakes and that in that boy were adjectives, because they modify nouns.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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