tout de suite
3
9.9
- idiom
- /tuː də swit/
- Informal
:
de inmediato
- Sortez tout de suite !
Examples
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I think this is a great idea, and I'll be firing off an email to Criterion, suggesting they make you an offer tout de suite!
Blog text (9) -
Tell them I'll call up the bank and make sure they're paid tout de suite.
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Now, I think we should get somebody like that out tout de suite.
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- Everybody on stage, tout de suite.
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The dodo is coming tout de suite.
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I'll call in the bathroom and send Georgie back tout de suite.
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That is, if you get your derrière to Paris, tout de suite.
Blog text (29) -
The character must raise 55,000 pounds tout de suite to repay a drug debt or find himself in the Serbian mob's crosshairs.
Blog text (19) -
"I want the Nawab's food taster up here tout de suite—within the minute.
Fiction book (1992) -
The teacher asked the students to submit their assignments tout de suite.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
At once without waiting
960
1.0
Without any delay
344
1.0
Immediately without delay
330
1.0
Right away without any delay
98
2.1
Without delay or at the planned time
25
5.6
Happen at once without delay
7
3.2
Without delay after something happens
Antonyms
How Immediate
Surface Forms
Morphology
tout + de + suite
Although the phrase literally combines French words meaning 'all' (tout) + 'of' (de) + 'following/sequence' (suite), the jump from that literal composition to the idiomatic sense 'immediately/at once' is not fully predictable. A learner who knows the French constituents might infer a sense of immediacy or succession, but the expression is partly idiomatized and language-specific, so it is only partially transparent to B1 learners.
Etymology
Tout de suite comes from the French words tout ('all'), de, and suite ('following' or 'in a row'). Imagine things happening one after another with no pause, so Tout de suite means 'immediately'.