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Did you see the dumbbells this guy lifts? If I lifted dumbbells like those, I would get a hernia the size of the San Andreas Fault.
— Manhattan Murder Mystery • 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker imagines an injury of absurd size if they tried lifting someone else's dumbbells. Comparing a hernia with a vast fault line turns the prospect into comic exaggeration. The joke directs attention toward the speaker's supposed inability to manage the weights.
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