consolation prize
booby prize informal

Consolation prizes cannot be expected to bring out the best in people.

But she had her eye on another guy, as a consolation prize.

Does it seem like a consolation prize at this point?

It would not be the main top, but a consolation prize.

But there will at least be a consolation prize this season.

We might be allowed to go along as a sort of consolation prize.

For those schools, however, the consolation prizes continue to reach higher.

Not a bad consolation prize - Paris for a few days.

A consolation prize at the end of an awful day.

I was in the mood for any sort of consolation prize at all.

Should she treat herself to the consolation prize of a movie?

"She said it was a consolation prize to make up for the traveling you did."

A consolation prize is again awarded for a wrong guess.

They want a complete victory; no consolation prize should go to the other side.

Its status as a consolation prize is one matter of controversy.

"Are you considering offering your body as some sort of consolation prize?"

I sometimes thought of the chateau as a consolation prize.

The fans know the playoffs are just a consolation prize.

"A small enough consolation prize after losing the rest of my fleet."

Perhaps, in the interests of romance, you would offer me a consolation prize.

John Hancock may be considered his consolation prize, though he was not talking that way last night.

"That's what they tried to hand me for a consolation prize, but I think it's just talk.

No consolation prize was awarded for finding less than five before time ran out, though.

It sounds to me like a consolation prize for opposition leaders that have lost.

Golden Smog should feel like something other than a consolation prize.

"More to Love" certainly makes that seem like the booby prize.

"I seem to have gotten the booby prize of masks."

Understanding, in matters of love, was inevitably the booby prize.

And we don't have to settle for this environmental booby prize.

The original Spanish version had a pumpkin as a booby prize.

It was their way of sticking Carlisle with the booby prize, if anything went wrong.

It's the booby prize you find in an elaborately wrapped box.

Booby prizes, however, may not be given just to those who just have a terrible performance.

It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.

A booby prize be] either door one, two, or three?

Dusty Bin was both the show's mascot and its booby prize.

A person who finishes last, for example, may get a booby prize such as a worthless coin.

A booby prize awaited them at the clubhouse door.

"You hunt for truth and you get a booby prize.

Booby prize goes to Uzbekistan even finding instant is a struggle never mind the real stuff.

A booby prize would open a can of worms I agree but may prove interesting reading on this thread.

(I suppose that is the basis of booby prize, won for being especially stupid.

Bad Sam wants to award a booby prize.

The booby prize is that it also gave the Liberty a so-called home-court advantage.

John got the booby prize: he lived.

But I still take the booby prize.

Booby prize: typically awarded as a joke or insult to whoever finished last.

There were also some booby prizes, such as a head of cabbage or a pound of onions.

We will meet his only competition for that booby prize soon, but for the moment, let us stick with Dale.

Which is a hell of a booby prize, I think, because my view is that there is no reason to stay.