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Tiny metal arguments that nobody wins but everybody finishes.
means The bullets, shells, and other projectiles fired from weapons — or, by extension, the facts and points you stockpile to win an argument.
from From the French 'la munition' (military supplies, fortifications), itself from Latin 'munire,' to fortify or defend. The 'a-' at the front is an accident: French soldiers misheard 'la munition' as 'l'amunition,' wrongly splitting the words, and the bungled version stuck. So the term is built on a centuries-old mishearing — fitting, perhaps, for something used in fights.
- word origin
- From Latin for fortification supplies, originally just war stuff
- shelf life
- Stored properly, can fire after decades unfazed
- headstamp code
- Stamped marks reveal maker, caliber, year of birth
- WWII scale
- US produced over 41 billion rounds total
- metaphor reach
- Verbal ammunition predates and outlives the gunpowder kind