The expression “no soap” has a history. The portion of that history that’s prior to 1958 appears in this paper: “No Soap,” Archer Taylor, Western Folklore, Vol. 16, No. 3, July 1957, pp. 198-200.
An Old History of No Soap
The expression “no soap” has a history. The portion of that history that’s prior to 1958 appears in this paper: “No Soap,” Archer Taylor, Western Folklore, Vol. 16, No. 3, July 1957, pp. 198-200.