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I wouldn’t trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whisky in Ireland.
— L.A. Confidential • 1997
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker says he wouldn't want to be in another man's position, not even for a whole country's worth of whisky. It's an exaggerated way of saying that person's situation looks dreadful, using an absurdly large reward as the yardstick.
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