Original artwork, not a still
Brighton Beach Memoirs • 1984
Why don't you just say you lost the money? You had a hole in your pocket. You can tear a hole in your pocket.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Someone is coaching a cover story about missing money. Just say a hole in your pocket lost it, they suggest. Then comes the funny twist: if there's no hole, you can simply make one, so the excuse can be manufactured.
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