Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet COP-OUT

Definition av COP-OUT

1. (idiomatiskt) det att undvika att utföra en uppgift
2. (idiomatiskt) undanflykt, ursäkt, förevändning; ursäkt som ges för att undvika att utföra en uppgift
3. (idiomatiskt) person som undviker att utföra en uppgift

Exempel på hur man kan använda COP-OUT i en mening

• Many fans blamed Smith for the loss, but in his autobiography Wayne Gretzky called that opinion "a total cop-out", asserting that the Oilers should've clinched the series well before Game Seven.
• The Los Angeles Times criticized the "cop-out ending that undercuts its message about the unimportance of surface differences in favor of a glib finalities to have its cake and eat it too".
• Hence the hasty wrapping-up of the absurdly exotic gangster plot, and the cop-out solution of the closing car chase (in which Stratford Johns finally loses one of several hairpieces he has essayed in the course of the film).
• At one point, Matthew Vaughn (the original director of The Last Stand before Brett Ratner took over) wanted Wolverine to carry Leech with him to Jean to depower her; Penn felt that this was a cop-out and Jean had to pay for her crimes, and depowering her would also not fix her broken state of mind.
• On the other hand, Esquires Brady Langmann criticised the ending as "puzzling" and Vultures Charles Bramesco described it as a "cop-out whimper" that "undercuts the moral scale-tapping preceding it".

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