Painterly round vanity mirror showing a moonlike surface beside a glowing wall light.

Original artwork, not a still

Marion

Stop wearing out that mirror!

— The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert · 1994

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The command imagines a mirror as something that can be exhausted by too much use. That exaggerated possibility makes repeated attention to it the subject of criticism. The line does not explain what the person is doing there, but insists that the use has gone on long enough.

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