English

Noun

Hobson’s choice ‎(plural Hobson's choices)

1. The choice of taking either the primary option or nothing.
   • 1847, James Fenimore Cooper, The Crater, ch. 23,

     When Hobson's choice is placed before one, deliberation is of no great use.

   • 1887, George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist, ch. 5,

     In other words, they might go to the devil and starve—Hobson's choice!—for all the other factories were owned by men who offered no better terms.