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We’d have more luck playing pick-up sticks with our butt-cheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak.
— Planes, Trains & Automobiles • 1987
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Del Griffith jokes that a nearly impossible party trick would have better odds than catching an early flight. Comparing an absurd game to their travel luck makes the situation sound hopeless. It's a crude, comic way of voicing pessimism about getting out before daybreak.
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