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How dare they spit at me! A nation that has a pillowcase with a slit in it as a national costume.
— Absolutely Fabulous · 1992
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker protests being spat at and disparages a nation’s costume by comparing it to a slit pillowcase. The comparison is a hostile judgment, not a neutral account of that nation.
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