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> I guess you'd disarm the person being facecious rather than the facetiousness No, you disarm the facetiousness, the same way you'd disarm a trap. Disarming t
by thaumasiotes 1y ago
> I guess you'd disarm the person being facecious rather than the facetiousness
No, you disarm the facetiousness, the same way you'd disarm a trap. Disarming the person wouldn't make sense.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disarm https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disarm
> 2. (transitive) To deprive of the means or the disposition to harm; to render harmless or innocuous.
> [quotations] to disarm a man's wrath
- jraph 1y agoInteresting, in French, you can both disarm someone or a gun. https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9sarmer https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9sarmer
- thaumasiotes 1y agoYou can disarm a person in English, but you can't disarm them of their mood.
- jraph 1y agoIn French neither, I took this as a figure of speech where facetiousness is likened to a weapon.