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Tracey

You're a slut. The way to your heart is through your fallopian tubes.

— Ally McBeal · 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker directs a sexual insult at someone and replaces the familiar route-to-the-heart metaphor with fallopian tubes. The remark reduces affection to sex and expresses contempt; it is not a factual account of the person.

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