Fait Accompli (French)
. A scheme which has been already carried out with success.
“The subjection of the South is as much a fait accompli as the declaration of independence itself.”—The Times.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.