Labour fattens with sops, develops a spirit of greed and production languishes.

Those milk-sops on the jury are just capable of according him extenuating circumstances.

Such were the sops with which he sought to quench his vindictive rage.

And so he brought him, and he made sops therein and ate them.

Those two sops sit 'round here too long, they get lazy.

But sorry later, there being nought else but sops and wine.

But one has to give occasional sops to the domestic tyrant.'

It's only milk-sops who run to mammy with every little bother.

We give no sops here: what do you take us for?

The old woman gave her sops of bread soaked in wine.

Reform proponents said the suggestions were sops to industry and he withdrew its report.

The OECD estimates that diesel sops alone costs the government three percent of GDP.

He is a whole-souled, whole-hearted, right-minded young man, worth a dozen of your fashionable milk-sops.

It will also try to pass an interim budget expected to contain pre-election sops for voters.

They are children in the gormandizing way; loving sugar, sops, tarts, trifles, apricot-creams, and such gewgaws.

In a country where corporate rigidity is only slowly easing, the sops could be satisfying enough.