The real truth is: that bill is a sop to the rich.Yet, underneath all that show of sop and decency was a man utterly fixed on himself, on his own concerns.It was a contemptuous sop of a clue, something they thought they could afford, but it might be useful.The most substantive problem, which advocates try to hide, is that the flat tax is a sop to the rich.A dangerous game, a sop to his conscience, he told himself, and he had his enemies.Before the election, they often gave the impression that they saw it only as a sop for disaffected left-wing intellectuals.Some critics question its sustainability and others view it as a sop to pacify the poor.

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English sop sop 1 / sɒp $ sɑːp / noun OFFER something not very important or valuable that a government or someone in authority offers to people to stop them from complaining or protesting – used to show disapproval sop to The company agreed to inspect the river regularly, as a sop to the environmental lobby.

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