A brown glove with one raised finger casts an exclamation-mark-shaped shadow on pale ground.

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My thumbs have gone weird!

— Withnail and I • 1987

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker exclaims that their thumbs have gone weird. The emphatic self-report leaves the change and its cause unspecified rather than diagnosing a condition.

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