A small grey cloud with hanging drops above a knitted scarf and a blue thermometer charm.

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Phil Connors

You want a prediction about the weather, you’re asking the wrong Phil. I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.

— Groundhog Day · 1993

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker begins by disavowing the requested forecast, then offers an extravagantly bleak one. Cold and grey weather stretches into an entire lifetime. That impossible duration turns a seasonal prediction into a comic expression of hopelessness, making winter sound like a permanent condition.

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