soft Mick

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English

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Etymology

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This phrase may originally have referred to an Irish shoe peddler working around Accrington, East Lancashire, in the early 1900s, from the phrase "more shoes than Soft Mick".

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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soft Mick

  1. (slang, British, idiomatic) An extravagant person.

Usage notes

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To have more (something) than Soft Mick is to possess an extravagant quantity of that thing.