Painterly worn boots and a trail of footprints beside a snow-covered mound against pale blue.

Original artwork, not a still

Alferd Packer

Come on, we can just walk around it. It can't be that big.

— Cannibal! The Musical • 1993

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker proposes walking around an obstacle and dismisses the possibility that it is very large. The reassurance rests on an assumption about its scale. Read as comic confidence, the line makes a potentially difficult problem sound simple without showing whether that confidence is justified.

Context reviewed

Share this quote