get off your soapbox!
stop pushing your opinions on others!
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Singaporeans take to SOAPBOX
(BBC News Headline)
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President Obama may be temporarily out of the Washington political maelstrom, but he used his SOAPBOX from the NATO summit Saturday to criticize Republicans for holding up ratification of one of his stand-out foreign policy achievements.
(Christian Science Monitor)
(BBC News Headline)
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President Obama may be temporarily out of the Washington political maelstrom, but he used his SOAPBOX from the NATO summit Saturday to criticize Republicans for holding up ratification of one of his stand-out foreign policy achievements.
(Christian Science Monitor)
Did you
know?
get up on one's soapbox
idiom
- to express your opinions about a particular subject forcefully
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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A soapbox is a raised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject. The term originates from the days when speakers would elevate themselves by standing on a wooden crate originally used for shipment of soap or other dry goods.
The term is also used metaphorically to describe a person who frequently engages in flamboyant impromptu or unofficial public speaking, such as in the phrases "He's on his soapbox", or "Get off your soapbox!"
Hyde Park, London is known for its Sunday soapbox orators, who have assembled at Speakers' Corner since 1872 to discuss religion, politics and other topics. A modern form of the soapbox is a blog: a web site on which a user publishes thoughts to whoever reads the page.
(adapted from Wikipedia)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"He has a reputation for getting up on his soapbox."
idiom
- to express your opinions about a particular subject forcefully
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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A soapbox is a raised platform on which one stands to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject. The term originates from the days when speakers would elevate themselves by standing on a wooden crate originally used for shipment of soap or other dry goods.
The term is also used metaphorically to describe a person who frequently engages in flamboyant impromptu or unofficial public speaking, such as in the phrases "He's on his soapbox", or "Get off your soapbox!"
Hyde Park, London is known for its Sunday soapbox orators, who have assembled at Speakers' Corner since 1872 to discuss religion, politics and other topics. A modern form of the soapbox is a blog: a web site on which a user publishes thoughts to whoever reads the page.
(adapted from Wikipedia)
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"He has a reputation for getting up on his soapbox."
