Piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid.
1Labour fattens with sops, develops a spirit of greed and production languishes.
2Those milk-sops on the jury are just capable of according him extenuating circumstances.
3Such were the sops with which he sought to quench his vindictive rage.
4And so he brought him, and he made sops therein and ate them.
5Those two sops sit 'round here too long, they get lazy.
6But sorry later, there being nought else but sops and wine.
7But one has to give occasional sops to the domestic tyrant.'
8It's only milk-sops who run to mammy with every little bother.
9We give no sops here: what do you take us for?
10The old woman gave her sops of bread soaked in wine.
11Reform proponents said the suggestions were sops to industry and he withdrew its report.
12The OECD estimates that diesel sops alone costs the government three percent of GDP.
13He is a whole-souled, whole-hearted, right-minded young man, worth a dozen of your fashionable milk-sops.
14It will also try to pass an interim budget expected to contain pre-election sops for voters.
15They are children in the gormandizing way; loving sugar, sops, tarts, trifles, apricot-creams, and such gewgaws.
16In a country where corporate rigidity is only slowly easing, the sops could be satisfying enough.