no soap | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,slang,dated)It is (or was) afailure.Synonyms:no joy,nothing doing1942,Rex Stout,Black Orchids‎[1], Farrar & Rinehart:I went back down to the men's room on the second floor and yelled his name in front of the private apartments, butno soap.1953,Saul Bellow, chapter 25, inThe Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press,→OCLC:I waited for his assistance but it didn't come. He let me trail for I don't know how long. I hollered and cried, cursed, rocked the boat.No soap.1973,Robert B. Parker,The Godwulf Manuscript‎[2], Houghton Mifflin:I rang. Nothing happened. I rang again and leaned on it.No soap.1983March,Bruce Jay Friedman, “Detroit Abe”, inEsquire‎[3]:Still and all, after weighing the pluses and minuses of Smooth's offer, he came, to the only possible conclusion for a civilized man—no soap.1992,Richard Ben Cramer,What It Takes: The Way to the White House‎[4], Random House:And he tried again—Lou always persisted—butno soap.

Examples:

EN: It's no soap, Gabby.
ES: No sirve, Gabby,
EN: - Well Excellency, there's no soap.
ES: Peor, Excelencia, no hay jabón.
EN: - Hey Esther, there's no soap.
ES: ¡Esther! No hay jabón.
EN: Your ears! There's no soap in the house?
ES: Y estas orejas, ¿es que no hay jabón en casa?
EN: No, no soap.
ES: - No, jabón no.
EN: No taxi, no job. No job, no soap.
ES: Sin taxi no hay trabajo y sin trabajo no hay nada.
EN: Now you go back and tell whoever's pulling this that there's no soap.
ES: - Nada de Dios. Dígale al Jefe que no jugaré más a las marionetas.
EN: No hope, no soap, no nothing.
ES: ¿ Cómo está usted?
EN: I called them, no soap.
ES: Lo llamé, nada.
EN: I tried to, but no soap.
ES: Lo intenté, no me creen.
EN: No, no soap, Leo.
ES: No, no quiero saber nada, Leo.
EN: No, I'm sorry, kid, it's just no soap.
ES: No, lo siento, chaval, va a ser que no.
EN: So it's "non sappo", which is Latin for no soap.
ES: - ¿No le pagan lo suficiente? - Es mucho más de lo que me esperaba. - Entonces, ¿qué ocurre?
EN: No hope, no soap
ES: ♪ No hay esperanza, no hay dinero ♪
EN: There's no soap in my room.
ES: - No hay jabón en mi habitación.

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