choice Idiom, Proverb

Hobson's choice

"accept what is offered or you get nothing; tight spot" If I don't agree to accept half the money, it will all go to charity. It's a Hobson's choice.

Sophie's choice

choosing between the death of you or your child He was facing a Sophie's choice: Lose his son or lose his own life.

choice

1. the best, excellent;"Your new boyfriend is a choice geezer"
2. extremely fine, nice or attractive, hot;"She's so choice!"

by choice

Idiom(s): by choice

Theme: CHOICE

due to conscious choice; on purpose.
• I do this kind of thing by choice. No one makes me do it.
• I didn't go to this college by choice. It was the closest one to home.

A burden of one's own choice is not felt.

Something difficult seems easier when it is done voluntarily.

by choice|choice

adv. phr. As a result of choosing because of wanting to; freely. John helped his father by choice. Mary ate a plum, but not by choice. Her mother told her she must eat it.

of choice

of choice
Preferred above others, as in A strike is the union's weapon of choice. Used with other prepositions (by, for, with), all meaning “by preference,” this idiom dates from about 1300.

pay your money and take your choice

pay your money and take your choice
Also, you pays your money and takes your choice. Since you're paying, it's your decision, as in We can take the train or the bus—you pays your money and takes your choice. This term first appeared in the English humor magazine Punch in the mid-1800s and has been repeated ever since.