coup de grace

And then Walz delivered the coup de grace by bringing up the absence of Mike Pence:

A skilled tracker can force faster running prey into a relentless cycle of sprinting, overheating, exhaustion, and eventual collapse—then finish off the animal with a coup de grâce delivered by spear or club.

The Toranaga of decades past wasn’t fit to deliver the coup de grâce to the rebel lord, and the Toranaga of today refuses to do the same to his country.

The coup de grace came with Tennessee trying to carve into a 69-64 deficit.

“This dramatic cull is the coup de grâce in the rather botched acquisition of the Family Dollar chain, which has caused Dollar Tree nothing but hassle since it was completed back in 2015,” wrote Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData.