A miniature dining table crowded with dishes at one end and a single place setting at the other on a dark green background.

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Rodney Fraser

Have you noticed that you're the only practicing heterosexual at your Thanksgiving dinner?

— The Object of My Affection  ·  1998

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker teases the listener by pointing out that at their holiday dinner, they may be the only one who is straight. It is a sly, provocative quip, mixing amusement with a challenge about how out of step the listener is with everyone else at the table.

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