Phrase guide
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Used to express that one is firmly committed to making one's own choice(s) regardless of disapproval from others.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, humorous, idiomatic
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see I, choose, violence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
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."
