coup de feu

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ku d(ə) fø/
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Noun

coup de feu m (plural coups de feu)

  1. gunshot
  2. (figuratively) action stations, all hands on deck, all hands to the pump
  3. (slang, restaurant industry) sudden rush of customers, or peak activity, leading to high workload.
    • 1986, Tito Topin, edited by Gallimard, Shanghai Skipper, pages 39–40:
      En fin de semaine, il officiait comme disc-jockey à « L’Enfer du Bagne », une discothèque hard sur la route d’Orange, où en plus de ses talents de manipulateur de saphirs, il devait prêter main-forte au service pendant l’heure du coup de feu, entre un tube de Jeanne Mas et le dernier Whapie-Doo-Whapie d’un rocker quinquagénaire.
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    • 2019, Michel Houellebecq, edited by Flammarion, Sérotonine, page 288:
      Le patron ne proposait aucun type de restauration, pas même des sandwiches, le coup de feu de midi ce n’était pas son style.
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