Six jars of tangled blue and yellow wire sit on a small wooden shelf.

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Melvin

Sell crazy somewhere else. We're all stocked up here.

— As Good As It Gets ‧ 1997

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

A brusque brush-off that treats craziness like merchandise. The speaker imagines a salesperson hawking it and says, in effect, the shelves here are already full, so take it elsewhere. The humour lies in the shop-counter metaphor used to shut someone down.

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