SOFT WORDS BUTTER NO PARSNIPS

Specialty Definition: SOFT WORDS BUTTER NO PARSNIPS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Soft Words Butter no Parsnips or "Fair words," etc. Saying "Be thou fed" will not feed a hungry man. "Good words will not fill a sack." To "butter parsnips" means also "dorer la pilule" ("soft words will not gild the pill of distress"). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "SOFT WORDS BUTTER NO PARSNIPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		ígéretekből nem lehet megélni. (various references)

Pig Latin		oftsay ordsway utterbay onay arsnipspay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.