| 单词 | shotgun wedding |
| 释义 | shotgun weddingor shotgun marriageSEE SYNONYMS FOR shotgun wedding ON THESAURUS.COM nouna wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy. Informal. a compromise, merger, accord, etc., occasioned by necessity: The coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding. Origin of shotgun weddingAn Americanism dating back to 1925–30 Words nearby shotgun weddingshote, shot effect, shot glass, shotgun, shotgun microphone, shotgun wedding, shot heard round the world, shothole, shot in the arm, shot in the dark, shot metal Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for shotgun weddingshotgun wedding nouninformal a wedding into which one or both partners are coerced, usually because the woman is pregnant Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with shotgun weddingShotgun wedding An agreement or compromise made through necessity, as in Since neither side won a majority, the coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding. This expression alludes to a marriage precipitated by a woman's pregnancy, causing her father to point a literal or figurative gun at the responsible man's head. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1900s. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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