bon mot
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As France faces a possible borrowing crisis and U.S. stocks shrug off a quarter-century high in bond yields, a Frenchman’s bon mot helps explain why: exorbitant privilege.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The character never has to search long for a bon mot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Economists would point to the folly of a course of action, and he would pull out a bon mot or caricature them as “the doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
The bizarre situation elicits Patroclus' zesty bon mot: "What a spring the man has! Nice dive! Think of the oysters he could come up with if he were out at sea …"
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2021
He jotted down this bon mot with his pencil nub.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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