a shotgun wedding
a shotgun wedding
Fig. a forced wedding. (From imagery of the bride's father having threatened the bridegroom with a shotgun to force him to marry the bride because he made her pregnant.)
Mary was six months pregnant when she married Bill. It was a real shotgun wedding.
Bob would never have married Jane if she hadn't been pregnant. Jane's father saw to it that it was a shotgun wedding.
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