an offer someone can't refuse
- an offer someone can't refuse
- informal
1) a very good offer
Dinner at your house? That's an offer I can't refuse.
2) often humorous a threat to harm someone unless they do what you want
He sold the bar to some gangsters who made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
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