"HOBSON'S CHOICE."
(By Mary Duncan, 15, Farrar Street, Grey Lynn.) I suppose many of us have wondered how that old saying "Hobson's Choice," which, by the way, means "no choice at all" arose. Well, it was this way—there was a certain farmer named Hobson, who kept horses (or should I say, a horse) which he hired out to any person requiring a mount, and when this person was asked to choose a horse he had to take the animal which Hobson kept behind the door of the stables, or none at all, as there was only one horse from which to clioosc.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 96, 24 April 1931, Page 14 (Supplement)
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