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Coup de main

noun

An attack without warning. Synonym: surprise attack.

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"Coup de main" Quotes from Famous Books

... Socrates Smith an air of mystery, portentous and suggestive. He looked like one meditating a coup d'etat, or, perhaps, it might better be said, a coup de main, as the hand is with schoolmasters, generally, the ...

— Hector's Inheritance - or The Boys of Smith Institute • Horatio Alger

... attacking the allies as soon as they met them. Vendome, on the other hand, was of opinion that the army which was now collected near Ghent had better advance against Oudenarde, which might be carried by a coup de main before Marlborough could come to its assistance, which he might be some days in doing, seeing that he was in command of a mixed force, composed of Dutch, Danes, Hanoverians, Prussians, and British. ...

— In the Irish Brigade - A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain • G. A. Henty

Words linked to "Coup de main" : onslaught, lying in wait, trap, ambuscade, attack, surprise attack, onrush, terrorist attack, pre-emptive strike, onset, ambush