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Doggone it, C.K. Dexter Haven! Either I'm gonna sock you or you're gonna sock me.
— The Philadelphia Story • 1940
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker, exasperated, tells a rival by name that a punch is coming one way or the other. Either they will hit him or he will hit them, so the mock-heroic ultimatum treats a fistfight as an unavoidable settling of accounts.
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