coup de grâce to something
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formalpluralcoups de grâce to sth
an action that ends something that has been gradually getting worse:
The signing of that truce was the coup de grâce to his rebellion.
The elections were the coup de grâce to any pretence of a fair political process in the country.
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coup de grâceformal
The coup de grâce to Thompson's theory came at the hands of a colleague at the university.
The ferocity of the Counter-Reformation was the coup de grâce to a Central Europe already suffering economic recession.
Now comes the real coup de grace to proud tradition: The French are drinking a lot less wine.
Jane's affair was the coup de grâce to her disintegrating marriage.简的婚外情终结了她本已破碎的婚姻。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing something to end
abandon
abandonment
all good things (must) come to an endidiom
and have done with itidiom
be over the humpidiom
cure
halt
hang
jack something in
kill something stone-deadidiom
knock
lay
lid
lift
snap
stamp on something
stamp something out
stanch
staunch
stem
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