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Coup de grace
is always a great word to know.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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coup de grace
1690s, from Fr. coup de grâce, lit. "stroke of grace;" the merciful death-blow that ends another's suffering (see coup).
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coup de grâce [(kooh duh grahs)]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.
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