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Careful Bill, you’ll give yourself a heart attack and ruin my vacation.
— Joe Black • Meet Joe Black
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
This is a wry warning: calm down, or you'll bring on a heart attack, which would spoil the speaker's own holiday. The humour is in the selfish twist, treating the other person's possible collapse as an inconvenience to leisure plans rather than a tragedy.
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