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They were both high. They'd been smokin' everything but their shoes.
— Steel Magnolias ‧ 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker reports that two people were thoroughly intoxicated, then caps it with an exaggeration: they had consumed everything by smoke except their footwear. The comic overstatement stretches getting high into absurd, all-inclusive excess, delivered with dry, gossipy relish.
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