Consolation prize - what is it?

You must have heard the expression "consolation prize." What does it mean? How can a prize be comforting? Let's try to understand the features of the appearance of this phrase, and also consider information about the book, which will help to more accurately understand this expression.

What does this mean?

This is the name of the thing that suddenly disappointed or offended by something people get. It serves as moral compensation for failure. There are many such situations, but we will consider only some of them. For example:

1. For example, a consolation prize is awarded at various competitions to those who deserve the first place, but as a result of any events do not receive it. Usually these are beauty contests, olympiads, sporting events.
2. After the test at school, the child may need a consolation prize if he conscientiously prepared for it, but received a worse grade than expected. As a moral encouragement, parents can offer ice cream, sweets, going to the movies.

The expression consists of two words: "console" and "prize". The first is formed from "amuse", which came from the pre-Slavic * těšiti and translates as "keep quiet." The word "prize" comes from the Latin presa and translates as "booty".

Examples of use

To understand in what cases it is appropriate to use an expression, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with examples of its use:

1. That is, a piece of cake or chocolate acts as a comforting prize. Margarita Koroleva, "The Easy Way to Slimness," 2009.
2. But I had already been sent a sort of comforting prize - two holy dreams. N. I. Arbuzova, “Thin Thread” (collection), 2011.
3. But then they will receive their consolation prize with absolutely worthless pieces of paper. V. Yu. Katasonov, "The Battle of the Ruble. The National Currency and Sovereignty of Russia", 2015.

Synonyms of expression are:

• good jackpot;
• generous gesture.
  

What is this book?

Due to the great popularity of the author, a novel with this name is being bought and bought in large quantities, it has many views and downloads on the Internet. The author of the work is Jackie Brown, the book is written in English, but for the convenience of readers it has been translated, including into Russian.

Jackie, author of wonderful and fascinating love stories, journalist, she graduated from the university in this specialty. She worked in the newspaper for more than 15 years, then began to write novels. The first of them was published in 1999. After that, five years later the second novel of the writer was published.

Soon, Brown received an offer from the famous publishing company Harlequin, now she writes novels in a love series, read by many people from different parts of the world.

Jackie’s novels were widely distributed in many countries, translated into different languages ​​of the world. Fans of her talent are reading all the new romance stories about love.

Book "Consolation Prize"

She was published in 2011. The protagonist of the novel is a well-known and successful owner of restaurants, but she is unlucky in family life. The girl has long dreamed of finding her soul mate.

Thanks to a successful career, Emily decided to expand her restaurant chain. She received an interesting offer from a mysterious stranger, whose name is Dan. How will this meeting end, can Emily find her true love?

The book "Consolation Prize" is distinguished by the fact that the author very beautifully describes all the experiences of the heroes, their emotions and dialogues. During the reading, it seems that you are standing next to the heroes and experiencing all the events with them. And this is so necessary for modern girl readers who lack romance in life.

We examined what the expression “consolation prize” means, and in which cases it is used.