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the price of peace

When in the midst of parenthood, this is the "price" associated with letting your kid do whatever they're doing that would normally annoy the living piss out of you in order to obtain a brief solace to accomplish any sort of meaningful task you've set out to do.

Think of it in this context:

Your 4 year old is outside flinging mud against the house. They're preoccupied, and normally you don't want your kid caking your house in mud. However, maybe you're talking with a neighbor or doing yard work. You want to keep doing that thing because the kid is distracted for a bit.

If we think about the situation pretty simplistically, you can either:

A) Yell at them to stop, whereby they'll likely find something equally as irritating or perhaps dangerous to do while you're still engaged in whatever you were doing.

B) Let them keep doing it and stay distracted for an undetermined amount of time, hopefully a while.

So once you're basically weighing how disruptive your kid's activity is versus the bit of time you'll receive to do what you need to do.
Person 1: Yesterday Timmy was flinging gravel across the yard all over the damn place.

Person 2) Is that why my damn window is broken?

Person 1) Yeah, but you know, it was the price of peace. At least I was able to finish up the deck.
by Cloren10 January 22, 2023
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Peace sign

A girl doing the peace sign means she has a lot of crushes
Bro have you seen her story? She’s been doing the peace sign
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Peace

State of Being. ie. object, subject, all sense, entire world.
rest in peace, state of peace (bliss), peaceful garden, world as a oasis of peace.
by pinux April 12, 2018
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peaceful airplane

Bobbinson: excuse me ma'am, you dropped your wallet-
Random person: exCuse me?! how dARE you misgender me!!!!11 I am a peaceful airplane.
Bobbinson: ???
Random person: T R I G G E R E D
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Noble Peace Prize

n. Any meaningless award given by a fawning organization hoping to curry favour with a despot and simultaneously deflect attention from their sordid history.

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So you’re saying the Nobel Peace Prize is also a Noble Peace Prize just like that ghastly FIFA Peace Prize? Mind blown.

The bigger question is why didn’t any headline writers go with “FIFA AWARDS TRUMP THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE”?

Too obvious. Clever puns should be subtle.
by gnostic3 December 18, 2025
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Peace out bean sprout

A social gathering goodbye first said by Jeffrey Arsenault
Person #1 "hey I'm going to head out"

Person #2 "peace out bean sprout"
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William Peace University

Also referred to as "Weird People University", this school festers the rejects of the popular hate group "The LGGBTTTQAAPPXYZ+". The school typically leans towards the libertarian/left of the political spectrum, which causes many of the student body to develop some form of autism.
"Hey what school do you go to bruh?"

"William Peace University"

"Lmao, what a libtard!"
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