Painterly yellow taxi door passing a pigeon on a wet grey pavement.

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Groucho Marx

Look, if you don’t like my parties, you can leave in a huff. If that’s too soon, leave in a minute and a huff. If you can’t find that, you can leave in a taxi.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker offers dissatisfied guests increasingly absurd ways to leave. A huff first means offended annoyance, then sounds like half in a minute and a half, before a taxi restores a literal means of departure. The mock-helpful sequence turns a brush-off into playful verbal confusion.

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