sugar soap
Britishnoun
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Products like flour, sugar, soap powder and dry pet food can be bought in 10-, 20-or 25-lb. quantities, then poured into smaller containers at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
The goods range from basic commodities such as corn, sugar, soap, salt and bread to furniture, which Zimbabweans have had to travel to neighboring countries to buy.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were shortages of almost everything needed to keep life going: milk and butter, meat, sugar, soap, raw materials in general.
From Time Magazine Archive
No doubt he thought it more worthy of his dignity to sell rice, sugar, soap, candles, etc., than hats.
From The Last Penny and Other Stories by Croome, William
We were already out of sugar, soap, and candles.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner
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