sugar soap

British  

noun

1. an alkaline compound used for cleaning or stripping paint

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Example Sentences

About 200 residents, many of them teenagers or children, trekked up a dirt path to a clearing and formed in two lines to receive their plastic bags of milk, sugar, soap, rice, beans and other rewards.

From New York Times

He added toilet cleaner to the nurses’ tea and sugar soap to the sugar bowl but fortunately no one touched either.

From The Guardian

Maria Presinal was part of a group of four women from Holyrood who drew up a list of food and household items to buy: cereal, milk, sugar, soap, towels, toilet paper.

From New York Times

The boy's family also received two cows, flour, onions, rice, salt, sugar, soap and oil, according to the Associated Press news agency.

From BBC

“Dear Judy, my pockets were stuffed with the necessaries of life—tea, sugar, soap, sometimes even bits of meat; they called it biltong, but it was really nothing more or less than dried meat.”

From Project Gutenberg