📗a fait accompli
📍FORMAL
☑️Meaning: If something is a fait accompli, it is certain to happen.
✨For example:
➖We know the judge in this case has been paid off by the defendant, so the verdict is a fait accompli.
➖People are acting as if the result of tomorrow's election is a fait accompli, but do you really think it's already decided?
💥Origin: "Fait accompli" is one of many French words and phrases that have been "borrowed" by English. A direct translation would be "an accomplished fact".
