This word always appears in the plural form and usually in a phrase like “If I had my druthers...” It refers to a preference, wish, or desire. If you had your druthers, maybe you would sleep till 11 every day. If you had your druthers, maybe you would live in Australia.
How do you use druthers in a sentence?
the right or chance to choose.
- If I had my druthers, I'd go fishing.
- If I had my druthers, I'd go skating.
- If I had my druthers, I'd go swimming.
- Given my druthers, I'd eat cake.
- Yet if I had my druthers, I would close it down tomorrow after nearly 30 years.
What does it mean to have your druthers?
: free choice : preference —used especially in the phrase if one had one's druthers.
