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I’m serious. The wrong person finds out about this and I get a steel-jacketed anti-depressant right in the back of the head!

— Tony Soprano ‧ The Sopranos

Painterly brass cartridge case standing in an open white pill bottle on marble, with its cap beside it.
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The speaker fears being killed if certain information reaches the wrong person. Calling a bullet an 'anti-depressant' gives that fear a grimly sarcastic name. The euphemism borrows the language of treatment for something fatal, placing a dark joke inside an emphatic warning about his own danger.

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