Clothes pegs hold a row of blank grey paper tags, one hanging crooked, against a steel-blue background.

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Addison DeWitt

What do you take me for?

— All About Eve • 1950

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

A pointed rhetorical question objecting to how the listener sees the speaker, implying the assumption is unwelcome or mistaken.

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