from the San Francisco Chronicle
The coup de gras was Kevin Kouzmanoff's double to left.
In French, "un coup de grâce" is a merciful death blow. It's euthanasia for one's enemies, but in its borrowed American form, the term feels sophisticated and luxurious.
Except that sometimes grace is misspelled "gras," which springtime revellers know means "fat." "Coup de gras" doesn't mean anything, although it calls to mind some kind of suffocation with meat.
In this example from baseball, where Kouzmanoff puts the game out of reach, he might be swinging a bat made of sausage links, or waddling around the bases all bloated from a big lunch.
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