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gun to your head en · X
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(excessive, idiomatic) Introduces a situation in which the listener is forced to make an immediate choice or state a preference under pressure, especially where neither option is strongly preferred.
If it was just your decision, and if I put a gun to your head... would you accept a million quid for your website, or wouldn't you?
2019, James Taylor, Japonica Secrets (fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC:"Okay, gun to your head," Saira says. "You have to pick one of us. Would you trade places with me, the Indian American woman, or Regina, the Black woman?"
2022, Regina Jackson, Saira Rao, White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page xlii:Gun to your head, would you pick chocolate or vanilla?
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