soap bubble
noun1
A very thin film of soapy water that forms a sphere with an iridescent surface.
2
Figuratively Anything that is attractive but insubstantial.
- These words so pierce this soap-bubble of the metaphysicians, that we can hardly read them without fancying that the poet meant them to be ironical.1879, John Campbell Shairp, Robert Burns, London: Macmillan:
- Related terms
- soap film