SHOTGUN WEDDING

shotgun wedding: translation

a shotgun wedding
Fig. a forced wedding. (From imagery of the bride's father having threatened the bridegroom with a shotgun to force him to marry the bride because he made her pregnant.) •

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.


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SHOTGUN WEDDING

вынужденный брак

SHOTGUN WEDDING

shotgun wedding n infml It was a shotgun wedding Свадьбу нельзя было откладывать, потому что девушка была в положении

SHOTGUN WEDDING

n infml It was a shotgun wedding — Свадьбу нельзя было откладывать, потому что девушка была в положении

SHOTGUN WEDDING

n (sl) shotgun marriage q.v.

SHOTGUN WEDDING

вынужденный брак

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