Sep 13, 2022
Can you find any other history to the use of soapbox or perhaps soapboxing?
The earliest example of the term used figuratively I can find is in the report of the National Convention of the Socialist Party of America in 1904, which referred to the party’s soap-box orators. Only three years later, Jack London wrote in The Road, his account of his hoboing experiences of 1894, “I get up on a soap-box to trot out the particular economic bees that buzz in my bonnet.”
The verb is also known, as is soap-boxer, both from early in the twentieth century.
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