Usage of "coup de grace"

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The blow that kills (usually mercifully)

Usage of coup de grace in English

Broncos centre Ward delivered the coup de grace seven minutes after half-time. 
 The Guardian 

For the coup de grace, Becker's unionized workers were ordered to strike. 
 The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m... 

Now, word was out that Descartes had applied the coup de grace. 
 Jitterbug Perfume 

She clinched the deal she had contrived, with a coup de grace. 
 The Guardian 

But the shuttle trade's coup de grace may well be EU enlargement. 
 Financial Crime and Corruption 

It's like a coup de grace for wheat sowing this year, Sierra said. 
 Reuters 

Then, in its own good time, it would deliver the coup de grace. 
 Complete Books of Blood 

The New Saboteurs are devotees of the impratical coup de grace. 
 The new yorker 

After she had felled them, she had given them the coup de grace. 
 Dayworld Rebel 

It was time for me to deliver the coup de grace. 
 Murder most frothy 

The exposure was a coup de grace to the system of Mr. Perkins. 
 Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 

Then he went down to the site and administered the coup de grace. 
 Secret Sanction 

That will be the coup de grace for the are of urbane travel. 
 The new yorker 

She had gloated at her victory and was administering her coup de grace. 
 The President's Assassin 

Then came the coup de grace after cheeky play by Alexander-Arnold. 
 Radio NZ 

Nor had the belief in the royalty of cotton received its coup de grace. 
 The Campaign of Chancellorsville 

Translations for coup de grace

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Meanings of coup de grace in English