soft Mick

English

Etymology

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

soft Mick

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

Usage notes

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

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