Set off
Set off verb - To cause to function.
Both terms in one sentence
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There is an (obviously faked) YouTube video of a little old lady in a crosswalk responding to the impatient honking of a motorist by whacking his front bumper with her handbag hard enough to set off his airbags.
Source: Handbag of Hurt
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