Sentence examples for a bit of coup from inspiring English sources

"It's a bit of coup.

This is a bit of a coup.

ON SATURDAY, George Osborne, the chancellor, enjoyed a bit of a coup.

"This is a bit of a coup for Fendi," contines Lazarus.

"I beat out everybody, so for a stringer, that was a bit of a coup," he said.

This year, though, Konami has scored a bit of a coup by landing the official license for the 2016 European Championships.

For Warren, this is a bit of a coup, since he seems to aspire to be the country's unofficial national pastor, a role once occupied by Billy Graham.

To poach him would be a bit of a coup for the Somerset-based brand – in the doldrums since creative director Emma Hill left in 2013.

And Fox scored a bit of a coup by snaring the first television interview of the night with Pat Robertson, the religious broadcaster who came under attack from Mr. McCain in a speech delivered in the preacher's hometown.

And earlier this year, Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco cut short a trip to China, after a city supervisor Mr. Brown had appointed acting mayor staged a bit of a coup by filling two vacancies on a powerful city board.

The aim is to debunk the Oxbridge myth and, at a talk called 'Oxford and Cambridge Explained', in what I think is a bit of a coup, Cambridge introduce one of their 'typical' students: she's female, state-school educated and wearing a hijab.