A brown glove with one raised finger casts an exclamation-mark-shaped shadow on pale ground.

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Animal Mother

Leave her for the mother loving rats!

— Full Metal Jacket  ·  1987

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker commands that a woman be left for the rats, using an emphatic euphemism. The words call for abandonment; they do not establish that anyone follows the command.

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