A tiny white sink with brass taps, a blue bow tie and a towel beside a stack of blue-rimmed plates.

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Ouiser Boudreaux

He's a real gentleman, I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

— Steel Magnolias • 1989

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Sarcasm at work: calling someone a gentleman, then imagining his politeness as unloading the dirty dishes before using the sink as a toilet. The joke is that his good manners are only a tidy surface, and the speaker assumes something crude sits right underneath.

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