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                           Phrase(s): oblige someone to do something  to require someone to do something.  •  You are obliged to arrive on time and enter by the side door.  •  The lateness of the hour obliged Tony to enter by the back door.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs