Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Two words and a door closes. Miranda never raises her voice, and the dismissal is how she shows power: no explanation, no thanks, no chance to reply. It is the film's signature catchphrase and the template for every cold boss on screen since. Online it is a reaction-GIF staple, used by anyone ending a conversation with ice-cold finality.
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In context
Spoilers for The Devil Wears PradaShow the scene
Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of the fashion magazine Runway, says it at the end of almost every order she gives in The Devil Wears Prada (2006). The first time is Andy Sachs's introduction to her: Emily is pre-interviewing the hopeless applicant when Miranda sweeps in, lists her demands for the cover shoot, and tells Emily to send the girl in herself before dismissing her with "That's all." It is also how she closes the exchange in which Andy, offering to cancel her evening, is told to just do her job. Meryl Streep played Miranda in a near whisper, a style she has said she took from Clint Eastwood.
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- Wikiquote: The Devil Wears Prada (film)Miranda's first scene, and the exchange where she tells Andy to do her jobReference checked
- Wikipedia: The Devil Wears Prada (film)Production: CastingReference checked
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