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Oh, leave that one! He looks like he's ready to drop any minute, and I think I can eat someone if he's already dead.
— Buffy the Vampire Slayer ‧ 1997
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker asks for someone who seems close to death to be left alone, adding that eating a person might be possible if that person has already died. The tentative qualification creates macabre humour: an extreme possibility is weighed through a strangely narrow personal boundary.
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