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Professor Plum

What are you afraid of, a fate worse than death?

— Clue • 1985

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker challenges the listener's fear with a taunting question, asking what could possibly scare them if not something worse than death. The phrasing turns a familiar dread into a provocation, daring the other person to name a terror greater than dying.

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