A frosty blue glass tube wrapped in a knitted scarf stands in a mound of white crystals.

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Vivian

You can freeze ice on his wife's ass.

— Pretty Woman · 1990

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker uses crude hyperbole to insult a man by way of his wife, claiming she is so cold that ice would form on her backside. It is a coarse jab at her supposed coldness, and by extension at him, presented as vivid exaggeration rather than literal fact.

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