soft option
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“The verdict of manslaughter therefore is not a soft option and doesn’t amount to saying that what he didn’t wasn’t all that bad, or that he deserves sympathy and understanding,” Owen implored the jury.
From Time • Nov. 4, 2016
Mr Grayling is wrong to label cautions a soft option, argues John Graham of the Police Foundation, a think tank.
From Economist • Nov. 6, 2014
And, if the ECB presses ahead with a mooted replacement of a competitive two-divisional championship with the soft option of a conference system, that situation could get worse.
From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2010
The sad truth is that when they have to pay down that debt, the soft option is jobs and conditions.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2010
Shadowing Farrell is a soft option, even now, when he's painfully learning the rudiments of flight: four months ago he had not even a nascent terror to make him suspicious.
From Foe-Farrell by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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