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In other words, you're saying you want me to leave?
— Felix Ungar · The Odd Couple
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker takes what they have just heard and restates it bluntly as a question, pressing the other person to say outright that they want them gone. The phrasing could carry hurt or a pointed challenge, but either way it turns a hint into something that must be openly admitted.
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