0 If goods sold in shops are shop-soiled, they are slightly dirty or damaged and therefore reduced in price. -- 因污损而降价出售的
His policy is very shop-soiled.
I have had my attention drawn already to large stores which have large stocks many of which suddenly become shop-soiled, and therefore are second-hand.
They had become shop-soiled in store.
The longer the party opposite put off this matter the more shabby, the more shop-soiled, becomes the issue.
This scarcely constitutes a great national movement and makes any invocation of the shop-soiled phrase about "the wind of change" more than usually foolish.
But now the articles sold are not even shop-soiled.
Many of them have larger stores than ever of travellers' samples, which also become shop-soiled.
Later, a bundle containing 2,667 was sent, but of those more than half, 1,524, were old, shop-soiled stock of a previous campaign.
