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		thaumasiotes 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” 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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