英语词汇“to throw a person a bone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(d) to throw a person a bone and variants: to give a person a minor or insignificant benefit, reward, compliment, etc., esp. in order to curry favour; to make a small concession in order to pacify or appease a person; to offer a sop to (cf. sop n.¹ 2e). Cf. sense 4b.

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1829 Belfast News Let. 4 Aug. The special wish of the Government that no opposition should be made to Mr. O'Connell, and that by throwing a bone to the agitator, he might be induced to cease from giving disturbance.

1871 E. C. G. Murray Member for Paris II. xv. 87/2 If we release this man and throw him a bone, it must be an understood thing that his paper leaves off poking fun at me.

1900 J. Scoble & H. R. Abercrombie Rise & Fall Krugerism ix. 119 Better to throw them a bone..and make them part of the fighting machine which was to dominate Africa.

1959 F. O'Connor Let. 17 Oct. in Habit of Being (1980) 356 Somebody sent me that issue of Harper's as I am thrown a bone in it.

2014 Beverage Industry Sept. 68/2 Truck operators are ‘thrown a bone’ in the form of tax relief to help jumpstart a market for advanced truck technology.

单词	to throw a person a bone
释义	> as lemmas to throw a person a bone (d) to throw a person a bone and variants: to give a person a minor or insignificant benefit, reward, compliment, etc., esp. in order to curry favour; to make a small concession in order to pacify or appease a person; to offer a sop to (cf. sop n.¹ 2e). Cf. sense 4b. ΚΠ 1829 Belfast News Let. 4 Aug. The special wish of the Government that no opposition should be made to Mr. O'Connell, and that by throwing a bone to the agitator, he might be induced to cease from giving disturbance. 1871 E. C. G. Murray Member for Paris II. xv. 87/2 If we release this man and throw him a bone, it must be an understood thing that his paper leaves off poking fun at me. 1900 J. Scoble & H. R. Abercrombie Rise & Fall Krugerism ix. 119 Better to throw them a bone..and make them part of the fighting machine which was to dominate Africa. 1959 F. O'Connor Let. 17 Oct. in Habit of Being (1980) 356 Somebody sent me that issue of Harper's as I am thrown a bone in it. 2014 Beverage Industry Sept. 68/2 Truck operators are ‘thrown a bone’ in the form of tax relief to help jumpstart a market for advanced truck technology. extracted from bonen.¹ < as lemmas
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