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Ally

That's the thing about me. I make all my clients forget about all their troubles by giving them bigger ones.

— Ally McBeal • 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker jokes that their method of helping clients is to swamp existing worries with larger ones. Ordinary problems shrink beside fresh disasters, so the clients stop dwelling on them. It is a wry, self-mocking boast that presents making things worse as a kind of professional service.

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