tout à coup

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tu.t‿a ku/
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Adverb

tout à coup

  1. all of a sudden, out of the blue
    • 1916, “Verdun, on ne passe pas!”, performed by Eugène Joullot and Jack Cazoll:
      Mais tout à coup, le coq gaulois claironne: Cocorico, debout petits soldats!
      But out of the blue, the Gallic rooster trumpets: cock-a-doodle-do, arise little soldiers!

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