Soft Shoe Meaning

(idiomatic) A speech, explanation, sales pitch, or other set of remarks delivered in a restrained or conciliatory manner in order to persuade, distract, or otherwise influence someone.

Example: 1966 Jan. 15, "Sunday (TV listings)," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. 19 (retrieved 5 Oct 2008):
  Between Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Newley there's a delightful exhibition of the dances and their origin dating gack a few hundred years, from the clog to the buck, the wing, and the buck and wing, and on to the old soft shoe and more.
2001 Nov. 26, Adam Piore, "Red, White And What A Deal!," Newsweek (retrieved 1 May 2014):
  Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning?