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A pin, a prayer, and four seconds to renegotiate your life choices.
means A small explosive device designed to be thrown by hand, armed by a pin and a short fuse delay before detonation.
from From 'hand' plus 'grenade,' which entered English via French grenade — itself from Old French pomegrenate/pome grenate, the pomegranate. Early explosive shells, packed with gunpowder and studded with fragments, reminded soldiers of the fruit's seed-studded interior, and the name stuck to the device long after anyone was thinking about dessert. 'Grenadier,' the soldier whose job was throwing these things, comes from the same seedy root.
- fuse time
- usually 3 to 5 seconds, not Hollywood's lazy ten
- kill radius
- smaller than the injury radius, which is the scary part
- origin
- named after the pomegranate it resembles, granada
- spoon myth
- the lever flies off, not an actual spoon