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by jraph 336 days ago
Interesting, in French, you can both disarm someone or a gun.

https://fr.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/d%C3%A9sarmer
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thaumasiotes 336 days ago
You can disarm a person in English, but you can't disarm them of their mood.
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jraph 336 days ago
In French neither, I took this as a figure of speech where facetiousness is likened to a weapon.
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