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

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Groucho Marx

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker says a five-year-old would understand and orders someone to fetch one. The second sentence turns the familiar claim of simplicity into a literal demand without establishing that a child is obtained.

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