Two teal cocktail glasses with pink paper umbrellas flanking a small magenta handbag against a deep plum background.

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Here's to swimmin' with bow legged women!

— Jaws · 1975

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker raises a glass to a bawdy, suggestive pleasure: swimming alongside bandy-legged women. The rough phrasing makes it a rowdy, crude toast, more about boisterous appetite than any refined compliment, with the humour resting on its unpolished frankness.

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