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soft option BrE

I did not even have an easy option for "none of the above."

Many people, as they approach their prime of life, look for easy options.

Again, the easy option - them just going over and helping themselves - was out of the question.

I didn't go into this line of work to take the easy option every time things get rough.

If anyone thinks having children is an easy option, I suggest you try looking after one for a few weeks.

In a situation of this sort ignorance is often the easy option.

But they stress that the easy options have already been used up.

The easy option would have been to settle for a point.

Very often, the easy option can be to allow that to happen.

He took the easy option, and sat in the driver's seat like he'd been told.