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It's hard to meet single woman on this job. You meet plenty of widows, but the timing just don't seem right.
— Homicide: Life on the Street · 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker turns a complaint about meeting single women at work toward the widows encountered there. The hesitation about timing supplies the dark humour. A possible dating opportunity is immediately qualified by circumstances that the speaker recognises as making an approach awkward.
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