A dagger balances upright on its point between two coins on a dark wooden surface.

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Mrs. White

He threatened to kill me in public.

— Clue • 1985

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker reports a threat to their life and stresses that it involved a public setting. The wording makes the threat sound especially brazen, although the isolated sentence leaves open whether the threat was spoken publicly or concerned a killing in public.

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