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sacrificial anode

Engineering term for protective component, trades humor

Something that must be broken, destroyed, or otherwise damaged, to ensure that something else is preserved or protected.

problem: Your computer is almost completely broken. solution: Get the hard drive, everything else can be a sacrificial anode.

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