hobson's choice

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   the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all

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Questions about hobson's choice

What does hobson's choice mean?

hobson's choice means "the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all".

Is hobson's choice a common word?

hobson's choice is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.