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Your husband ain't dead, lady, he's hiding.
— The Ref · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker corrects a woman's belief that her husband has died, claiming instead that he is hiding. The blunt address and flat contradiction give the line a brisk, deflating tone, treating the husband's absence as evasion rather than tragedy, according to the speaker's view.
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