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throw (someone) a bone (idiom)

Informal

To offer (someone) something that is not very important or valuable especially to stop complaints or protests

The boss would not let his workers out early for the holiday but threw them a bone by buying lunch. M-W

throw a bone to (phrase)

Give someone only a token concession.

Was the true purpose of the minimum wage hike to throw a bone to the unions? Lexico

Angry at the betrayal of their supposed friends and allies, SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] lashed out that “this token offer of recognition was too much like the usual bone thrown to Negroes who showed signs of revolt.” Harvard Sitkoff; The Struggle for Black Equality (2008)

throw (someone) a bone (idiom)

Informal

To offer (someone) something that is not very important or valuable especially to stop complaints or protests

The boss would not let his workers out early for the holiday but threw them a bone by buying lunch. M-W

throw a bone to (phrase)

Give someone only a token concession.

Was the true purpose of the minimum wage hike to throw a bone to the unions?

I bet this was already obsolete in design and technology some years back, and they wanted to throw a bone to the public. Lexico

Angry at the betrayal of their supposed friends and allies, SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] lashed out that “this token offer of recognition was too much like the usual bone thrown to Negroes who showed signs of revolt.” Harvard Sitkoff; The Struggle for Black Equality (2008)

throw (someone) a bone (idiom)

Informal

To offer (someone) something that is not very important or valuable especially to stop complaints or protests

The boss would not let his workers out early for the holiday but threw them a bone by buying lunch. M-W

throw a bone to (phrase)

Give someone only a token concession.

Was the true purpose of the minimum wage hike to throw a bone to the unions? Lexico

Angry at the betrayal of their supposed friends and allies, SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] lashed out that “this token offer of recognition was too much like the usual bone thrown to Negroes who showed signs of revolt.” Harvard Sitkoff; The Struggle for Black Equality (2008)

throw (someone) a bone (idiom)

Informal

To offer (someone) something that is not very important or valuable especially to stop complaints or protests

The boss would not let his workers out early for the holiday but threw them a bone by buying lunch. M-W

throw a bone to (phrase)

Give someone only a token concession.

Was the true purpose of the minimum wage hike to throw a bone to the unions? Lexico

Angry at the betrayal of their supposed friends and allies, SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] lashed out that “this token offer of recognition was too much like the usual bone thrown to Negroes who showed signs of revolt.” Harvard Sitkoff; The Struggle for Black Equality (2008)

throw (someone) a bone (idiom)

Informal

To offer (someone) something that is not very important or valuable especially to stop complaints or protests

The boss would not let his workers out early for the holiday but threw them a bone by buying lunch. M-W

throw a bone to (phrase)

Give someone only a token concession.

Was the true purpose of the minimum wage hike to throw a bone to the unions? Lexico

Angry at the betrayal of their supposed friends and allies, SNCC lashed out that “this token offer of recognition was too much like the usual bone thrown to Negroes who showed signs of revolt.” [Harvard Sitkoff; The Struggle for Black Equality3 (2008)

throw (someone) a bone (idiom)

Informal

To offer (someone) something that is not very important or valuable especially to stop complaints or protests

The boss would not let his workers out early for the holiday but threw them a bone by buying lunch. M-W

throw a bone to (phrase)

Give someone only a token concession.

Was the true purpose of the minimum wage hike to throw a bone to the unions? Lexico

Angry at the betrayal of their supposed friends and allies, SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] lashed out that “this token offer of recognition was too much like the usual bone thrown to Negroes who showed signs of revolt.” Harvard Sitkoff; The Struggle for Black Equality (2008)