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TRAIN D'IRONIE
A long time ago when teenagers we use to tease a friend and one day he replied with an answer which left us amazed, he said VOTRE TRAIN D'IRONIE GLISSE SUR LES RAILS DE MON INDIFFERENCE. 35 YEARS ON, HE STILL CLAIMS HE INVENTED THE EXPRESSION. Has anyone heard it before? Thank you
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Yes, "Votre train de (it could be anything here, but the classic one is "mépris" not "ironie") glisse sur les rails de mon (it could be anything here)" is an expression (or rather a template of expression since there are many possible variants of it).
Quite a bit more of a formal expression than "OSEF", but the meaning is roughly the same.
Donnu who invented it and I couldn't find any reference to who could have (and what the original expression is, in fact).
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