Foreign phrases

Japanese

• A formal way of killing yourself by cutting open your stomach with a sword..

• The entire organisation will be compelled to commit Hara-kiri..

French

• 1.a grand or flamboyant…

• 2.an ornamental plume of feather, tassels or the like, especially one worn on a helmet or cap..

• 1. I hardly think king Henry would have doffed his white panache in any danger.

• 2.The actor who would play Cyrano must have panache.

• Belonging to the lower middle social class, or haring the characteristic that are connected with this class, such as valuing money and possessions too much and not trusting new or different ideas..

• 1.On one side there is the petit bourgeois, the other the creators..

• 2.In those circles, it is considered terribly petit bourgeois to make a fuss about infidelity..

ORIGIN : LATIN

MEANING

1. PERTAINING TO EXAMINATION OF BODY AFTER DEATH.

2. AN EVALUATION OR DISCUSSION OCCURING AFTER THE END OR FACT OF SOMETHING.

EXAMPLE :

A POSTMORTEM CRITICISM OF A TELEVISION SHOW.

THE POSTMORTEM REPORT OF JESSICA LAL HELPED THE POLICE TO COUNTER HER MURDER MYSTERY.

MEANING:Whatever will be, will be

Example:“ I have always dreamed of being an inventor, until a sense of reality overtook my rather unrealistic ambitions, que sera sera “