English Explanatory Dictionary

I choose violence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

phrase
  1. Used to express that one is firmly committed to making one's own choice(s) regardless of disapproval from others.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, choose, violence.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-I choose violence.wav

Word forms

I choose violence

Etymology

Presumably inspired by a scene in the episode "No One" (2016) of the television series Game of Thrones, in which Cersei Lannister, facing clerical detention and ordered to restrain her bodyguard, calmly responds, "I choose violence."

Related words

choose violence
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