A glossy blue-and-orange bird figurine perches on twisted wire stretched between two ceramic insulators.

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Lucy

Why are you always everywhere with something to say?

— Moonlight and Valentino · 1995

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What it means

Our interpretation.

An exasperated question aimed at someone who can't stop inserting opinions. Pairing 'always' with 'everywhere' exaggerates the person's constant presence for comic effect. It reads as a complaint about being talked at rather than talked with, weary rather than cruel in tone.

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