She was unarmed and she knew it,
A glass of water will win in her district if it has a D attached to it.
As the shirt slogan:
I Refuse to Have An
Intellectual Argument
Against an Unarmed Opponent.
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in this source it says many versions exist,not from Shakespeare or Wilde but one from an 1866 novel which the author, Abby Buchanan Longstreet, released under a pseudonym. “The blood swung its reddest pennant out over the boy’s cheeks, but Trissilian’s mood was not to be resented, or resisted. A battle of wits was to be fought, and the Boy in Blue was unarmed to-night.”
In December 1928 Walter Winchell’s widely-distributed gossip column printed an instance of the joke. The punch line was credited to the comedian and actor Frank Fay who was engaged in a sharp disagreement with an interior decorator:
“Mr. Fay, is this going to be a battle of wits?”
“If it is,” was the indifferent retort, “you have come unarmed!”