"Hobson’s choice" meaning in All languages combined

See Hobson’s choice on Wiktionary

Noun [Anglais]

IPA: \ˈhɒb.sən‿z ˈtʃɔɪs\ Forms: Hobson’s choices [plural]
  1. Alternative entre le choix primaire et rien.
    Sense id: fr-Hobson’s_choice-en-noun-TmfHZ2pr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: take it or leave it

Inflected forms

Download JSONL data for Hobson’s choice meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Dates manquantes en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions nominales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Mots en anglais se référant à une personne",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(Date à préciser) Du patronyme de Thomas Hobson (1544-1631), qui louait des chevaux et donnait le choix à ses clients entre le cheval le plus proche de la porte de l’étable et pas de cheval du tout."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Hobson’s choices",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈhɒb.sən‿z ˈtʃɔɪsɪz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "take it or leave it"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative entre le choix primaire et rien."
      ],
      "id": "fr-Hobson’s_choice-en-noun-TmfHZ2pr"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈhɒb.sən‿z ˈtʃɔɪs\\"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hobson’s choice"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Dates manquantes en anglais",
    "Locutions nominales en anglais",
    "Mots en anglais se référant à une personne",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "(Date à préciser) Du patronyme de Thomas Hobson (1544-1631), qui louait des chevaux et donnait le choix à ses clients entre le cheval le plus proche de la porte de l’étable et pas de cheval du tout."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Hobson’s choices",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈhɒb.sən‿z ˈtʃɔɪsɪz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "take it or leave it"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative entre le choix primaire et rien."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "\\ˈhɒb.sən‿z ˈtʃɔɪs\\"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Hobson’s choice"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-08-05 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-01 using wiktextract (ec0369a and 6aeea9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.