tordre le cou
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- to wring one's neck, to kill
- (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.