A small green dollhouse stands on peach fabric with a feather duster protruding from its chimney.

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Zsa Zsa Gabor

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

This is a joke built on a twist: the speaker calls themselves a great housekeeper, and the punchline is that each time a relationship ends, they walk away with the man's house. 'Keeping house' turns from tidying up into literally keeping the property.

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