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		jraph 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” Interesting, in French, you can both disarm someone or a gun. https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9sarmer

thaumasiotes 6 months ago [–]

You can disarm a person in English, but you can't disarm them of their mood.

jraph 6 months ago | [–]

In French neither, I took this as a figure of speech where facetiousness is likened to a weapon.

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