A black tuxedo jacket and a pale lace bra hang side by side on wooden hangers against pink.

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Groucho Marx

Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker mocks the word "necking" as anatomically misleading, implying that whoever coined it did not know where such activity really leads. The humour is a mock-scholarly complaint with a suggestive wink: the embraces involved go well beyond the neck.

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