A worn brown coin purse spills old coins onto brown ground.

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Otis

I put my hand in my mouth after I touched all of that money. Could that be bad?

— Kicking and Screaming

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker realises they touched a great deal of money and then put their hand in their mouth, and anxiously asks whether that could be harmful. The question is naive and worried, tinged with comic self-consciousness about how dirty handled money might be.

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