Brewer's: Choice Spirit

(A) or “Choice Spirit of the Age,” a gallant of the day, being one who delights to exaggerate the whims of fashion.

Hobson's Choice.
(See Hobson.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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