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I can’t believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We’re looking up money laundering in a dictionary.
— Office Space • 1999
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker laughs at their own geekiness, amazed that they are consulting a dictionary to find out what money laundering means. The self-mockery lies in the mismatch between the illicit-sounding subject and the earnest, bookish way of investigating it.
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