A coiled rope hangs over a worn saddle on a wooden fence in a dry landscape.

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Clay Stone

You came out here city slickers, you're gonna go home cowboys.

— City Slickers • 1991

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker promises a group of inexperienced city visitors that their time roughing it will transform them into something tougher and more capable by the time they head home. It frames the coming experience as a rite of passage that reshapes identity through hardship.

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