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Meanings of soft pedal in English

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Usage of soft pedal in English
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Why, it's a scene to be played with the soft pedal down!
The Ways of Men
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When she applied the soft pedal the Bacchic revel became a silent prayer.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 01
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He certainly owes it to the nation to apply the soft pedal to himself.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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He has been hollering for soft pedal all the time.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
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Guess I'd better put the soft pedal on him. He pulled out his hypodermic.
The Song of the Lark
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I started out with the soft pedal on, but things got away from me.
Buttered Side Down: Stories
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He played cautiously at first, with the soft pedal down.
A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's, and Other Stories
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But put the soft pedal on the temperamental stuff, when you're near Simon Cameron.
Black Caesar's Clan : A Florida Mystery Story
9
You exclaim: What is that?- asentimentfor the soft pedal!
Piano and Song / How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a J...
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Well, now you know-goodfriends, and the soft pedal on sentiment and drama, eh?
The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)
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Then I went on with my meditations, thinking I had used the soft pedal effectively.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster
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But when it's that kind of opinion he ought to put on the soft pedal.
The Radio Boys' First Wireless; Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize
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But can't it be done with the soft pedal?
The Poisoned Pen
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You are simply smothered in the soft pedal.
Jane Allen, Junior
15
Officially and personally he felt imperatively bound to put the soft pedal on that instrument of discord.
Heart of the West
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It is good to have, but egotism needs the soft pedal when we speak or do things.
Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
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