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coup de gr芒ce
[ koo duh grahs ]
noun
- a death blow, especially one delivered mercifully to end suffering.
- any finishing or decisive stroke.
coup de gr芒ce
/ ku d蓹 伞r蓱s /
noun
- a mortal or finishing blow, esp one delivered as an act of mercy to a sufferer
- a final or decisive stroke
coup de gr芒ce
- The final blow: 鈥淗e had been getting deeper and deeper in debt; the fates delivered the coup de gr芒ce when he died.鈥 The phrase is French for 鈥渟troke of mercy.鈥 It originally referred to the merciful stroke that put a fatally wounded person out of his misery or to the shot delivered to the head of a prisoner after he had faced a firing squad.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of coup de gr芒ce1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of coup de gr芒ce1
Example Sentences
Losing Syria, the only other nation-state in the axis other than Iran, may be the coup de grace.
After laying claim to the deeply dubious decision of that pardon, the optics of which may haunt Democrats for years, Clyburn delivered his coup de gr芒ce: That the man whose brazen lawlessness Biden was elected to stop鈥攁nd who was charged with 88 criminal counts and convicted on 34 felonies before the Supreme Court sent those charges up in smoke鈥攕hould also now be pardoned.
And then Walz delivered the coup de grace by bringing up the absence of Mike Pence:
A skilled tracker can force faster running prey into a relentless cycle of sprinting, overheating, exhaustion, and eventual collapse鈥攖hen finish off the animal with a coup de gr芒ce delivered by spear or club.
The Toranaga of decades past wasn鈥檛 fit to deliver the coup de gr芒ce to the rebel lord, and the Toranaga of today refuses to do the same to his country.
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