My friend said the weekly group dinners stopped because one couple got divorced and the group dinners were collateral damage. What does he mean by this? Google answers aren’t clear.
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Unintended losses that result from an action.
From the military. I drop a bomb on a house to kill a guy. Other people die as a result. Those other people, who weren’t my target, are “collateral damage”.
In your case, the bomb was the divorce. The target was their relationship. The collateral damage is the other things that get ruined other than the relationship.
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