flatpacktruce
/ˈflætpækˌtruːs/nounVerified NewThe temporary division of labor a couple adopts mid-assembly of flat-pack furniture, usually one reading instructions and one building against them.
The truce holds through the wardrobe and collapses over the bookcase, and each assembly rewrites who is the reader and who is the builder. Flatpacktruce is a relationship stress test that arrives in a cardboard box, and its outcome is never discussed afterward.
Etym. — flatpack + truce — the vocabulary of ceasefire fits a cooperation under low-grade fire.
Rel. — orphanbolt
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