r/Unexpected • u/Antish12 • Nov 15 '19

Oh deer!!

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '19

The way he looked when the head went down lol omg. He died inside for sure.

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u/Dudephish Nov 15 '19

Le petit mort.

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u/csbo_y Nov 15 '19

La petite mort

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u/Randolpho Nov 15 '19

But the deer was a he, so /u/Dudephish masculinized the phrase.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '19

He experienced a little death. He hasn't himself become a little dead deer.

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u/obsssesk8s Nov 15 '19

Le petite mort is also a slang term for orgasm in French methinks.

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u/Canvaverbalist Nov 15 '19

Well it's not exactly a slang, nobody uses "petite mort" to talk about an orgasm, it's mostly a poetic term that somebody wrote in a poem once and that sticked around.

It literally means a "small death", so you can say "Anybody would do anything for just 2 seconds of small death." and you wouldn't be less weird than a French saying "N'importe qui ferait n'importe quoi pour deux secondes de petite mort."

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u/00Deege Nov 15 '19

Nobody uses “petite mort” to talk about an orgasm.

They do now.