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Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
— The Wizard of Oz · 1939
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The film's real line is I've a feeling, not I have a feeling, and the slightly old-fashioned phrasing is part of why it stuck. It marks the exact moment the story leaves home, and people now use it for any sudden entry into the strange, from a new office to a bizarre party, almost always shortened to we're not in Kansas anymore.
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In context
Spoilers for The Wizard of OzShow the scene
The Wizard of Oz (1939, directed by Victor Fleming). A tornado tears through Dorothy Gale's Kansas farm while she shelters in the house, and the whole building is lifted into the sky with her and her dog Toto. It comes down in an unknown land. The Kansas scenes were filmed in sepia, and when Dorothy steps out into the land of the Munchkins, the screen bursts into three-strip Technicolor. She looks around and tells Toto she has a feeling they are no longer in Kansas.
Sources (2)
- Wikipedia: The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)Plot and productionReference checked
- Wikiquote: The Wizard of OzDorothy sectionReference checked
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