| 词汇 | a shotgun wedding |
| 释义 | Idiom a shotgun wedding British, American & Australian, old-fashioned, American, old-fashioned a marriage that is arranged very quickly because the woman is going to have a baby.After a shotgun wedding at 20, she had 3 children before divorcing from her husband. shotgun weddingA wedding that happens quickly due to an unplanned pregnancy. After finding out she was pregnant, Gina and Tom had a shotgun wedding. a shotgun wedding1. A shotgun wedding is a wedding that happens quickly because the woman is pregnant. The sort of marriage that starts with a shotgun wedding never quite escapes from the feeling that one partner or the other has been trapped. 2. A shotgun wedding is when two companies or organizations join together suddenly because they need to. The committee was created through a shotgun wedding between the community relations commission and the race relations board. a ˌshotgun ˈwedding/ˈmarriage(old-fashioned, informal) a marriage which takes place because the woman is pregnantThis expression probably refers to the father of a woman, who threatens to shoot the man unless he marries her. |
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