A heart-shaped puzzle with one missing piece and a small turquoise piece hovering above it.

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Jack Sparrow

Where’s it gone? Where’s the thump-thump?

— Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest • 2006

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker repeatedly asks where the “thump-thump” has gone, using a childlike sound for a heart or heartbeat. The wording turns an urgent search into something comically simple, expressing bafflement at the absence of something expected to be there.

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