tordre le cou

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔʁ.dʁə l(ə) ku/
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Verb

tordre le cou

  1. to wring one's neck, to kill
  2. (figuratively) to bring something to an end quickly, to stifle
    Sans doute fallait-il la victoire d'un socialiste à Paris pour tordre le cou à l'ordo-libéralisme venu de Berlin.
    Without a doubt, it needed a socialist victory in Paris to wring the neck of the ordoliberalism coming from Berlin.
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