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shotgun wedding
noun
- a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- Informal. a compromise, merger, accord, etc., occasioned by necessity:
The coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding.
shotgun wedding
noun
- informal.a wedding into which one or both partners are coerced, usually because the woman is pregnant
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of shotgun wedding1
Idioms and Phrases
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.Example Sentences
The midnight announcement by the leaders of both parties was made in sombre tones and had the air of a shotgun wedding.
Taiwan's two main opposition parties appeared to be on the brink of announcing their shotgun wedding - the leader of one would run for president in January's election; the leader of the other would be his running mate.
The “Shotgun Wedding†star, 50, and Miss World America pageant queen, 29, announced they were expecting their first baby together in a joint Instagram post on Monday.
Instead, what modern viewers mostly get are pale, labored imitations — the frenetic Jennifer Lopez-Josh Duhamel caper “Shotgun Wedding,†the hollow-core Ana de Armas-Chris Evans vehicle “Ghosted.â€
He departed the comedy “Shotgun Wedding†that he was shooting with Jennifer Lopez, left the Paramount+ series “The Offer,†about the making of “The Godfather,†and was dropped by his agency, WME.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from 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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