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A fleet so big it mistakes confidence for strategy.

means A large fleet of warships, especially one organized for a major naval campaign.

from Borrowed straight from Spanish armada, meaning 'armed force' or 'fleet,' from the verb armar, 'to arm,' tracing back to Latin arma (weapons). The word fused itself to history in 1588, when Spain's Grande y Felicísima Armada sailed against England and sank into legend as the Spanish Armada — a name so famous it quietly took over the word itself, turning a generic term for 'fleet' into shorthand for grand, overconfident naval ambition.

origin
Spanish word for armed fleet
1588
Spanish Armada lost to England and weather
irony
storms beat ships more than cannons did
usage
now means any overconfident overwhelming group
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