1. n. in a number of choices, the one considered to be easy or the easiest to do, involving the least difficulty or exertion.
2. n. the easiest of two or more possible choices.
2. n. the easiest of two or more possible choices.
Chemical castration: the soft option? More than 100 British sex offenders have volunteered for 'chemical castration'. But do the drugs make them harmless? (Aitkenhead, Demma. The Guardian. Chemical castration: the soft option? Article published 18 January 2013.)
See doss.
"It looks easy, this, but it's not. It looks like a doss, like a soft option." Mark Renton in _Trainspotting_, describing using heroin.
See doss.
"It looks easy, this, but it's not. It looks like a doss, like a soft option." Mark Renton in _Trainspotting_, describing using heroin.
by Smartjanitor June 30, 2013
A short story, usually no more than 300 words, becoming more and more popular on the Internet. One suspects that the technology of portable readers has helped this genre along. Also known as "flash fiction." Wikipedia offers Aesop's Fables as some of the earliest and best-known microfictions.
One ancient and respected microfiction is Aesop's "The Fox and the Grapes," whence we get the expression "sour grapes."
by Smartjanitor March 18, 2014