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What is the meaning of “dangerously harmless”?
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I was reading an article where a young man is described as "dangerously harmless". There was no context in which to place the term. What does this mean? It seems that the words in this pair should be mutually exclusive. Perhaps I am overthinking the term.
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I was reading an article where a young man is described as "dangerously harmless". There was no context in which to place the term. What does this mean? It seems that the words in this pair should be mutually exclusive. Perhaps I am overthinking the term.
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