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War and Military History question: The origin of A sop to Cerberus? the present day meaning is to smoke some doobees with your g-pa the present day meaning is to smoke some doobees with your g-pa it means ... What does throw a sop to Cerberus mean? What is the orgin of a sop to Cerberus? What is the origin of a sop to...
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Cerberus (also Kerberos) was the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades, the infernal region in classical mythology. Ancient Greeks and Romans used to put a slice of cake in the hands of ... This custom gave rise to the idiom "to give a sop to cerberus" meaning to give a gift to quiet a troublesome person.
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Jun 3, 2007 ... That led to the famous expression a sop to Cerberus, metaphorically meaning "an insignificant price to pay for averting much discomfort," or ...
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The coin was meant as payment for Charon who ferried the souls across the river Styx, while the cake helped to pacify Cerberus. This custom gave rise to the expression 'to give a sop to Cerberus,' meaning to give a bribe or to quiet a troublesome customer.
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sop to Cerberus, give a - What is a(n) sop to Cerberus, give a from The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable at Encyclopedia.com ... sop to Cerberus, give a in allusion to the story in the Aeneid of the descent of Aeneas into the underworld; he was able to pass safely by the monstrous watchdog Cerberus by drugging him with...
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To give a sop to Cerberus. To give a bribe, to quiet a troublesome customer. Cerberus is Pluto's three-headed dog, stationed at the gates of the infernal regions. When persons died the Greeks and Romans used to put a cake in their hands as a sop to Cerberus, to allow them to pass without molestation.
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MYTH MAN'S HOMEWORK; HELP CENTER - CERBERUS ... This custom gave rise to the expression 'to give a sop to Cerberus,' meaning to give a bribe or to quiet a troublesome customer.
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Russia is a Cerberus that grows more than 3,000,000 heads a year, many of them hungry for truth. The Soviet leaders appease this appetite with huge helpings of technological and scientific fact, but when it comes to political truth, they either stonily ignore the demand or cynically toss a sop to Cerberus.
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The GMAC bailout, and any future Chrysler Corporation bailout, is looking very much like a cynical handout to well-connected financial interests — a sop to Cerberus, as it were — that stand to lose from the impending automotive debacle, before allowing GM and Chrysler to liquidate anyway.
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