I wouldn't have troubled you to send for me, only the tandem's hors de combat.
He is not hors de combat on the plain, or one could see him even ten miles off.
"I am glad to say that Legrand's safe, but hors de combat," I went on.
More than two hundred were hors de combat, most of them killed.
The lecturer on Church and State was hors de combat; he was in charity with all men.
The headlight was hors de combat; only the "dimmer" would work.
A little while before it had been Jim's motor which was hors de combat.
On my way I passed a Tank which, for the time being, was hors de combat.
And so far was he successful that already he had put two hors de combat.
Dr. Downie was frightened, and Panky so muddled as to be hors de combat.
1757, French, literally "out of combat."
