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by choice

due to conscious choice; on purpose. I do this kind of thing by choice. No one makes me do it. I didn't go to this college by choice. It was the closest one to home.

Hobson's choice

the choice between taking what is offered and getting nothing at all. (From the name of a stable owner in the seventeenth century who always hired out the horse nearest the door.) We didn't really want that particular hotel, but it was a case of Hobson's choice. We booked very late and there was nothing else left. If you want a yellow car, it's Hobson's choice. The garage has only one.

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be spoilt for choice  (mainly British) also be spoiled for choice (mainly American)

to have so many good possible choices that it is difficult to make a decision With 51 flavours of ice-cream to choose from you are spoiled for choice.

Hobson's choice

a situation in which it seems that you can choose between different things or actions, but there is really only one thing that you can take or do

Usage notes: Thomas Hobson was a man who kept horses and did not give people a choice about which horse they could have.

It's Hobson's choice, because if I don't agree to do what they want, I'll lose my job.