tout à coup
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
- 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!
References edit
- “coup”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.