An easy job; a lucrative bargain.
1845. At times these lawyers may be caught in a soft snap.—St. Louis Reveille, Sept. 1.
1847. The thimble-rigger set him down for a soft snap.—Oregon Spectator, Jan. 7.
1851. Simon gets a “soft snap” out of his daddy.—Heading of chap. ii., J. J. Hooper, ‘Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs,’ &c., (Phila.).
1862. A game of billiards to be won of Collins the “soft snap.”—Rocky Mountain News, Denver, April 26.
1890. People now were not looking for “soft snaps,” but for something that did not depend for its value on the chance of selling to some one else in sixty days.—Van Dyke, ‘Millionaires of a Day,’ p. 170.
1901. I stepped out thinking I was going to get some soft snap, such as running a saw or grist mill; but it turned out not to be so very soft.—W. Pittenger, ‘The Great Locomotive Chase,’ p. 37.
1902. Peter Mosely is a man on the watch-out fer rail [real] soft snaps.—W. N. Harben, ‘Abner Daniel,’ p. 16.
1907. The Oregon Daily Journal, Oct. 14, contains such advertisements as these: “Snap in Fruit and Poultry Farm.” “Big Snap, 16 acres good soil.”
1909. Choir work under Dudley Buck’s direction was no “snap.” He demanded the best of his quartet and chorus.—N.Y. Evening Post, Oct. 21.
