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bon mot
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bon mot  (bô m)
n. pl. bons mots (bô m, mz)
A clever saying; a witticism.

[French : bon, good + mot, word.]

bon mot [bon moh]
Noun
pl bons mots a clever and fitting remark [French, literally: good word]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.bon mot - a clever remark
humor, wit, witticism, wittiness, humour - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe


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Salting his book with quotes and bon mots from, among others, Thomas Merton, Henry David Thoreau, Dorothy Day, Alcuin, Sophocles Publius Sirius, Emily Dickinson, and Groucho Marx, Sullivan eschews a whimsical, half-baked approach to not being rich in favor of practical, hard-nosed advice for those seeking to ward off the infamy of unbridled prosperity.
But Natalie's ready to walk away from 20 grand for two days' work because the client is her estranged, eminently bitchy brother Roy (Kiefer Sutherland), a perfectionist control freak who runs an ad agency and navigates his way around designer clothing and wicked bon mots with equal aplomb.
It also reads well in the sense that it is absolutely studded with pithy and amusing observations--it is a veritable compendium of bon mots (and some not so bon) about the English.
 
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