call shotgun イディオム
shotgun wedding
Idiom(s): shotgun weddingTheme: MARRIAGE
a forced wedding. (Informal. From imagery of the bride's father having threatened the bridegroom with a shotgun to force him to marry.)
• Mary was six months pregnant when she married Bill. It was a real shotgun wedding.
• Bob would never have married Jane if she hadn't been pregnant. Jane's father saw to it that it was a shotgun wedding.
Ride shotgun
If you ride shotgun, you protect or guard something when it is being transported.Shotgun marriage
A shotgun marriage, or shotgun wedding, is one that is forced because of pregnancy. It is also used idiomatically for a compromise, agreement or arrangement that is forced upon groups or people by necessity.Sitting Shotgun
Riding in the front passenger seat of a car.shotgun
shotgunIn addition to the idiom beginning with shotgun, also see ride shotgun.
call shotgun
To verbally affirmation the adeptness to ride in the advanced commuter bench of a car. An allusion to date coaches in 19th-century America, which were generally adequate from outlaws by addition who sat wielding a shotgun abutting to the driver. Mom, don't let Jake ride up front—I alleged shotgun! A: "OK, let's get aback on the road." B: "I alarm shotgun!"Learn more: call, shotguncall shotgun
phr. to alarm out and affirmation the bench beside the disciplinarian in an automobile. Bob alleged shotgun so he could sit abutting to the driver. Learn more: call, shotgun
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