Idiom
Bob Hope
SlangCockney rhyming slang
Meaning
soap
Examples
“Please pass me the Bob Hope for the shower.”
“I need to go to the store to buy some Bob Hope because we ran out.”
“He reached for the bar of Bob Hope to scrub his hands after working in the garden all afternoon.”
Examples
simple
“Please pass me the Bob Hope for the shower.”
contextual
“I need to go to the store to buy some Bob Hope because we ran out.”
complex
“He reached for the bar of Bob Hope to scrub his hands after working in the garden all afternoon.”
Origin
Rhyming slang from the name of the British-born American comedian Bob Hope (1903–2003). The term relies upon the rhyme between the entertainer's surname and the noun soap.
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