choose : Idioms & Phrases

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Can not choose but

  • must necessarily.
Webster 1913

choose up

  • verb form sides, as for a game
WordNet

chosen people

  • noun any people believing themselves to be chosen by God
WordNet

ill-chosen

  • adjective satellite not elegant or graceful in expression
    awkward; inept; inapt; clumsy; cumbersome.
    • an awkward prose style
    • a clumsy apology
    • his cumbersome writing style
    • if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?
WordNet

To choose sides

  • to select those who shall compete, as in a game, on either side.
Webster 1913

well-chosen

  • adjective satellite well expressed and to the point
    happy.
    • a happy turn of phrase
    • a few well-chosen words
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