soap bubble
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soap bubble (plural soap bubbles)
- A very thin film of soapy water that forms a sphere with an iridescent surface.
- (figurative) Anything attractive but insubstantial.
- 1879, John Campbell Shairp, Robert Burns, London: Macmillan:
- These words so pierce this soap-bubble of the metaphysicians, that we can hardly read them without fancying that the poet meant them to be ironical.
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sphere of soap water
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anything attractive but unsubstantial
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