A fuchsia high-heeled shoe balances on a coiled tape measure beside gold thread and a spool.

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Patsy

One snap of my fingers and I can raise hemlines so high the world's your gynecologist.

— Absolutely Fabulous ‧ 1992

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Exaggerating her own influence over fashion, the speaker boasts she could raise hemlines so dramatically that everyone's most private business becomes visible to the world. It's a flamboyant, self-aggrandizing joke about power over trends, using an absurd image to sell her own importance.

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