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I got so many hickeys people'll think I'm a leper.
— Grease · 1978
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker exaggerates the visible effect of numerous hickeys by imagining people mistaking them for signs of disease. The comparison turns a private sexual aftermath into a worry about public appearance. Its bluntness supplies the humour without making the imagined diagnosis a factual claim.
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