shotgun wedding
shotgun marriage

A. In 1789 there was a shotgun marriage between the two, and the state has never quite recovered from it.

There has been a shotgun marriage in Poland and no one knows how it is going to work.

It may be a shotgun marriage, but the fusion of America's two international broadcasting services seems a good outcome.

The longest love affair of my life began with a shotgun marriage.

"Whether it will be a shotgun marriage or a honeymoon remains to be seen."

The new zoning is something of a shotgun marriage between real opposites.

The only specific evidence he cites shows that the pill led to a decline in shotgun marriages.

So the book's union of disparate realms can seem forced, an academic shotgun marriage.

There will be no use of force, since as the president put it: "We don't believe in shotgun marriages.

But the more traditional Arab way to cover up is through a kind of shotgun marriage that keeps honor intact.