A worn leather dog lead hangs in a heart-shaped loop above a tennis ball on a wooden floor.

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Billy Madison

If your dog is lost, you don’t look for an hour and call it quits. You get your ass out there and you find that fuckin dog!

— Billy Madison · 1995

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker insists that a lost dog deserves real, sustained effort rather than a token search. Giving up after an hour is treated as unacceptable, and the crude, forceful phrasing demands that the listener get out and keep looking until the animal is found.

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