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Significats de booby prize en anglès

Joke prize given in recognition of a terrible performance or last-place finish.

Ús de booby prize en anglès
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BofA reject wins Fannie Mae booby prize No good deed goes unpunished.
Reuters
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If anything happened it would mean we'd been passed a booby prize.
The Atrocity Archives
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Not that Wales have secured rugby union's booby prize for sure.
The Guardian
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One was the booby prize and one was the first prize.
The new yorker
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A booby prize may be awarded the one who has only broken hearts.
Games for Everybody
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A donkey is given as a booby prize to the one most often fooled.
Entertainments for Home, Church and School
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And nobody ever mentioned that the idiot hauling the dope got the booby prize.
The capitol game
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And just as I was mulling those vexing issues, Director Townsend won the booby prize.
The President's Assassin
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I finally settled on "my future is a booby prize."
Mysterious Skin
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The husband asked which was to be first prize and which was to be booby prize.
The new yorker
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It's hard not to read this singling out of female achievement as a booby prize, quite literally.
The Guardian
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That booby prize fell to Channel Four.
The Guardian
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If you are the beauty of this college, I run a close race for the booby prize!
A College Girl
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Well, you get the booby prize.
Crossings
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He had also given a copy of South Canterbury Finance founder Allan Hubbard's biography as a booby prize at an SFO party.
Radio NZ
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The booby prize has apparently been awarded to the Reds, but we feel that our contemporary might have put in a claim.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920
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