un coup
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French
Pronunciation
Adverb
- (colloquial) used to soften an order
- Passe un coup le sel !
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- (colloquial) once, one time.
- J’ai eu du chagrin de savoir que ton neveu s’était fait refuser aux postes encore un coup. — (Marcel Aymé, La jument verte, Gallimard, 1933, republished Le Livre de Poche, p. 25)
- It made me sad to know that your nephew had got himself refused once again in the postal service.
- J’ai eu du chagrin de savoir que ton neveu s’était fait refuser aux postes encore un coup. — (Marcel Aymé, La jument verte, Gallimard, 1933, republished Le Livre de Poche, p. 25)