| 单词 | booby prize |
| 例句 | In the contest between /and me, the booby prize often goes to myself. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Any other week, “Gettin’ the Band Back Together” would have locked up Broadway’s booby prize, but it looks positively adequate by comparison with “Pretty Woman.” ‘Pretty Woman’ Review: Super-Safe Sex on Broadway 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z “It’s the most glitteringly golden booby prize that you can possibly imagine,” he said. The King’s the Thing, Not the Play, for an Actor Who Would Be Lear 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Ballard explained that in the first three months of the township venture he made 300 percent profit on the property he had “won” as a booby prize in a gamble with a friend. A look back on Leary Way, ca. 1936 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z I really appreciate it in the book that you were not going to talk about becoming the "wise, sage woman" like it's some kind of booby prize. Pregnancy books are everywhere. Why are there so few menopause books? 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z I didn’t always want to do what felt like something of a booby prize. International Women’s Day is a time to recognise how far equality has come 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z This GOP lawmaker gets the booby prize for moral imbecility. Opinion | 187 House Republicans have lost their moral compass 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z I think that the situation is exactly the opposite, and that a “diminished” girl does not go running through the town, under so many horse noses, to find a booby prize. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z A statuette, in other words, for those movies not good enough to qualify as best picture; a booby prize, akin to giving the uncoordinated nerdy kid a gong simply for showing up on sports day. An Oscar for best blockbuster? Isn’t all the money enough any more? | Ryan Gilbey 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z OK, it's only Monday, but this tweet by NZ Police already takes the booby prize for social media fail of the week. NZ Police sorry for crash death tweet 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Instead, Schumer found himself with a job that The Times Union, in Albany, observed two days after the election was “something of a booby prize.” The New Party of No 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Husky fans might quibble about being ranked fourth, with the booby prize of facing Alabama in the first round, rather than moving up to second or third. While the wait Sunday was a bit nervous, the Huskies have come a long way in a short time 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Manchester City’s League Cup triumph means the division’s sixth-placed finishers are likely to qualify for the continent’s booby prize that is the Europa League. Premier League and FA Cup talking points from the weekend 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z In this survey, we hand out booby prizes to 12 hand-chosen losers. 12 Worst Buys in Funds 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z As for the fifth major North American league, the booby prize again goes to Toronto. Royals Pass Torch to Blue Jays as Team With Longest Playoff Drought 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z "Sausage," someone whispers, as if it's a booby prize. On a night out, Minnesotans hope to get lucky at meat raffle 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z No matter how you slice it, it seems inevitable that the Huskies get the booby prize here. Deconstructing, and ranking, each Pac-12 non-league schedule . . . 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z “The EU may be getting the booby prize for peace because it sure hasn’t created prosperity.” The EU Won What?! 2012-10-12T14:43:00Z A bruise, quite simply, is the booby prize that comes with life's lumps and bumps. What you might want to know about bruising 2012-02-14T19:25:04Z Imagine how much worse than everybody else you have to be to get that booby prize. For Redskins, bad football and worse decisions 2011-12-05T02:02:00Z "I have been asked to present you with the booby prize," she said with a dangerous twinkle in the grey eyes. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z For fans worried that Ashley may no longer be in the party mood once the next window opens there is now Kuqi – somewhere between a dip in the bran tub and a booby prize. London pride may be all Chelsea can salvage 2011-02-13T00:14:31Z Anyone who works in an emergency department knows why: treating patients with belly pain is the ER doctor's booby prize. Why Abdominal Pain Is Such a Headache for ER Doctors 2011-02-02T09:50:00Z The Fiesta Bowl got the booby prize when Connecticut, which won the Big East because nobody else did, was the only team left to pair with Oklahoma. No real suspense in bowl matchups, at least until kickoff 2010-12-06T05:50:00Z The Big Ten's welcome gift to Nebraska looks more like a booby prize. Big Ten gives Nebraska no breaks in 2011 schedule 2010-09-02T02:10:00Z For the booby prize have a bag of the buttons Peggotty burst from her gown when an exuberance of emotion filled her breast. Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Sonada had dropped into last place and Wheelwright was not much better, both of them running neck and neck for the booby prize. History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 We might as well get the booby prize. Voyage To Eternity Moreover, Mrs. Gushington-Andrews, hitherto considered one of the best fists at bridge or hearts in the 400, actually won the booby prize, which I saw her throw into the street when she departed. Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman They all laughed at this hit, for the doctor's daughter was not much of a pastry cook and her lemon pie had been voted the booby prize at luncheon. The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won I want something for a booby prize for a backgammon tournament. A Bookful of Girls The fort having the least number of flags may be given a booby prize in the shape of small toy drums for the ladies and toy fife or horn for the gentlemen. Games For All Occasions If you are the beauty of this college, I run a close race for the booby prize! A College Girl Among the archives of his past Ashcroft history he found some tell-tale manuscripts, the contents of which had never appealed to him until after the booby prize episode. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope 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 On second thoughts he concluded that she did not, and he began again: “I got that booby prize you made.” A Bookful of Girls The booby prizes are wands with "fools' heads" of gingerbread. Games For All Occasions "Everybody says you're going to give solid gold prizes and that even your booby prize will be handsomer than the first prize was at Mrs. Detwiller's." Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents The next time prizes were being handed around his arm would be the longest, and his voice the loudest; and they would not be booby prizes neither. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope As Buster Brown afterward stated, "Neither one would take the booby prize at a beauty show, but at that, the bulldog had a better chance than Bildad!" T. Haviland Hicks Senior A booby prize may be awarded the one who has only broken hearts. Games for Everybody A donkey is given as a booby prize to the one most often fooled. Entertainments for Home, Church and School The booby prize, after all, had been the foundation of his success. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope "I will make the man swallow his words who awarded me that booby prize," he thundered; and he was going the right way about it. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope The unpopular man took a sly glance back at the ancient happy hunting-grounds antedating his booby prize days. Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope |
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