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soft job
Idioms and Phrases
An easy job or task, as in He really has a soft job—his assistants do nearly all the work . This colloquial expression uses soft in the sense of “involving little or no hardship or discomfort.” It was first put as soft employment in 1639.Example Sentences
He was piling it on so that when the next Christmas-tree comes along, he may find a soft job waiting for him.
The impression that being a Christian is a soft job inevitably brings our religion into contempt.
Soft job like this one wot we've nicked on ter ain't goin' ter slip through 'is fingers fer a little tongue-waggin'.
But he is incapable of construction, so he merely preaches the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, which is a soft job.
Where'd be the sense in them giving the glad hand to the guy who's got it in him to do them out of a nice soft job?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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