chose jugée

noun

A point, issue etc. which has already been decided (especially legally) and is therefore not worth discussing.

OriginFrench chose jugée →
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Meanings

nounchose jugée (plural choses jugées)

plural choses jugées

  1. A point, issue etc. which has already been decided (especially legally) and is therefore not worth discussing.

    ‘We will not, if you please, argue the matter, which for me is a chose jugée.’

    1913, Mrs Humphry Ward, The Mating of Lydia
    1 more example

    The Duchess objected to the Amen, which I thought gave an air of forgiveness and chose jugée to the whole thing […]

    1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald

Origin

  1. Frenchchose jugée
  2. Englishchose jugée

Borrowed from French chose jugée, "judged thing".

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