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Hobson's choice
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| the choice of taking either that which is offered or nothing; the absence of a real alternative. |
[Origin: 1640–50; after Thomas Hobson (1544–1631), of Cambridge, England, who rented horses and gave his customer only one choice, that of the horse nearest the stable door
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