booby prize
Example Sentences
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Croatia embraced the match in 2022 despite having gone one better in 2018 when they were runners-up to France - though Morocco head coach Walid Regragui described it as a "booby prize".
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
I really appreciate it in the book that you were not going to talk about becoming the "wise, sage woman" like it's some kind of booby prize.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
Perhaps, though, if the government ultimately gets to keep Bolton’s profits, it will all eventually add up to a ridiculous booby prize for the whole country.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2020
I think that the situation is exactly the opposite, and that a “diminished” girl does not go running through the town, under so many horse noses, to find a booby prize.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018
"I will make the man swallow his words who awarded me that booby prize," he thundered; and he was going the right way about it.
From Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope by R. D. (Robert Dalziel) Cumming
