0 a small prize given to someone who has taken part in a competition, but who has not won
1 a small prize given to someone who has taken part in a competition but has not won
I naturally would not suggest that you were only worth a consolation prize.
Or is it that they have been introduced as a kind of consolation prize for having raised the prices of the five existing types?
Was it a political consolation prize or was there a specific and understood motive?
He will rapidly have to demonstrate that his appointment is not just a political consolation prize.
It does not seem to me to amount to more than a kind of consolation prize which one might get if it is agreed to.
My consolation prize is to respond to the debate.
No consolation prize exists for those who have lost—only the long wait for the next round of bidding.
It is but a crumb from the table, a little consolation prize.