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Show Hobson's Choice The quotation, "Hobson's choice," came into being as the result of the eccentricity of Tobias Tobi-as Hobson, an English stable owner. When a man came to him to rent a horse, he was shown a number of animals in the stable, but Hobson always insisted in-sisted that he take the horse which stood next to the stable door. "Hobson's choice" was thus born to indicate that although al-though the selection was supposedly suppos-edly yours, that of another person was forced upon you. |