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Austin Powers

Shall we shag now or shall we shag later?

— Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery · 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker makes a cheeky, openly sexual proposal, using slang for sex, and offers the listener a choice between doing it immediately or postponing it. The playful phrasing turns a bawdy invitation into a breezy scheduling question, treating desire as something to be casually timetabled.

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