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coup de grâce
[ koo duh grahs ]
noun
- a death blow, especially one delivered mercifully to end suffering.
- any finishing or decisive stroke.
coup de grâce
/ ku də ɡrɑs /
noun
- a mortal or finishing blow, esp one delivered as an act of mercy to a sufferer
- a final or decisive stroke
coup de grâce
- The final blow: “He had been getting deeper and deeper in debt; the fates delivered the coup de grâce when he died.” The phrase is French for “stroke of mercy.” 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.
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of coup de grâce1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of coup de grâce1
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 grâce: That the man whose brazen lawlessness Biden was elected to stop—and who was charged with 88 criminal counts and convicted on 34 felonies before the Supreme Court sent those charges up in smoke—should 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—then finish off the animal with a coup de grâce delivered by spear or club.
The Toranaga of decades past wasn’t fit to deliver the coup de grâce to the rebel lord, and the Toranaga of today refuses to do the same to his country.
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