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[edit] Etymology
Borrowed from French, from the past participle of toucher.
[edit] Interjection
touché!
- (fencing) An acknowledgement of a hit.
- (idiomatic) An acknowledgement of the success, appropriateness or superiority of an argument, sometimes used sarcastically to mock one's opponent's absurd logic.
- How do you know you're a woman? Have you ever checked? - Touché..
- (idiomatic) Used in a conversation or debate to concede a point as true, often in response to a successful counter of one's own logic.
- "Maybe I could tell her the car was stolen?" "Or maybe you could tell her the truth?" "Touché!"
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fencing hit
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acknowledgement of superior argument
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concede point as true, often countering one's own logic
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[edit] French
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touché
- Past participle of toucher.
