soft pedal

Английский Язык - Турецкий язык

Определение soft pedal в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь: piyano pedalı; {f} ses yumuşatma pedalı; yumuşatmak; hafife almak; hafifletmek; pedal ile çalmak

Английский Язык - Английский Язык

Определение soft pedal в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: The leftmost foot-pedal on a piano; A pedal used to mute tone, as on a piano; pedal on a piano that reduces musical tones; {f} play down, minimize, reduce importance, make less important; use the soft pedal in playing piano to reduce the volume of music; a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound
soft pedals: plural form of soft pedal
soft-pedal: Attempting to persuade without being obvious about it, by understating a position so the listener takes the good points as obvious
soft-pedal: play down or obscure; "His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder
soft-pedal: soft-pedal soft-pedals soft-pedalling soft-pedalled in AM, use soft-pedaling, soft-pedaled If you soft-pedal something, you deliberately reduce the amount of activity or pressure that you have been using to get something done or seen. He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal. to make something seem less important or less urgent than it really is