Hobson's choice

NOUN
  1. the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all
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How To Use Hobson's choice In A Sentence

  • It's a case of Hobson's choice, because if I don't agree to their terms, I'll lose my job.
  • It's a case of Hobson's choice, because if I don't agree to their terms, I'll lose my job.
  • Hobson's choice, as water was not to be found anywhere else at a come-at-able distance. Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief
  • It's a case of Hobson's choice, because if I don't agree to their terms, I'll lose my job.
  • Which, of course, would allow the Democratic challenger to say, "Then why did you vote against the best interests of your constituents?" and start ticking off other elements of the bill - no dropping of health-care insurance ( "recision") once a policyholder gets sick, no lifetime caps on coverage so people struck by costly illnesses don't have to go bankrupt anymore and on and on - which would give the incumbent a Hobson's choice: Local News from Tuscaloosa News
  • I agree in thinking it probable that few women, capable of anything else, would, unless under an irresistible _entrainement_, rendering them for the time insensible to anything but itself, choose such a lot, when any other means were open to them of filling a conventionally honourable place in life: and if men are determined that the law of marriage shall be a law of despotism, they are quite right, in point of mere policy, in leaving to women only Hobson's choice. The Subjection of Women
  • US units are forced to patrol without adequate weapons and the poor CO here has a hobson's choice, let his men carry AK's and risk fratricide or walk around with berettas and commit suicide. THE NEWS BLOG
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