>>What does "coming off the soap box" mean?
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>It means a person is finished talking and has stepped off the "podium".
>I don't know the origin of the phrase, but I think it refers to someone standing on an old wooden box to make a speech in the past.
Thanks for the information.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)