shotgun wedding

猎枪式婚礼猎枪婚礼猎枪式结婚霰弹枪婚礼

shotgun wedding 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  2. Informal. a compromise, merger, accord, etc., occasioned by necessity: The coalition government was obviously a shotgun wedding.

shotgun wedding 近义词

n. 名词 noun

marriage of necessity

更多shotgun wedding例句

  1. This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
  2. Dance instructors run a lucrative trade offering private lessons to couples before their wedding receptions, typically the tango.
  3. Just a week after her divorce, she was invited to a wedding by her sister-in-law.
  4. And thus I end up at the bottom of the stairs, about one month after my injury and two months after my wedding.
  5. Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?
  6. This week has been one of great excitement in Weimar, on account of the wedding of the son of the Grand Duke.
  7. Of course they would stop for the wedding; but meantime she must be very discreet; she must not intrude too much.
  8. The village organist had distinguished himself by his florid rendering of the Wedding March.
  9. The wedding breakfast very much resembled the similar festivities at which most of us have assisted.
  10. I have always rather wanted to visit California, and started for it once upon a time—on my wedding journey.