Hobson's

English

Noun

(Cockney rhyming slang) Ellipsis of Hobson's choice (“the voice”).
- 2001, Mike Coles, The Bible in Cockney, Oxford, Oxfordshire: The Bible Reading Fellowship, →ISBN, page 23:
  He then grabbed 'old of the knife, raised it above 'is loaf, and was just about to kill his currant with it, when 'e suddenly heard the Hobson's of an angel from heaven saying, Abraham! Abraham!'

References

Jonathon Green (2024) “Hobson's (choice) n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
“Hobson's, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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