When you cannot think of the right word

So there’s this woman whose husband was at home working on his laptop.

He also had the TV on.

At some point, while the woman was on a phone call or something, a super loud commercial came on the television. The woman wanted to ask her husband to silence it. But she simply could not come up with the word “mute.”

So, after a frustrated moment or two, she finally blurted out “Activate the device!”

Her husband now finds all sorts of occasions to use that phrase.