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I bet people can actually die of embarrassment. I bet it's been medically proven.
— My So-Called Life · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker imagines embarrassment becoming so intense that it could kill, then guesses that medicine has already proved it. The repeated 'I bet' gives an emotional exaggeration the sound of an argument. The joke lies in reaching for scientific authority to express how overwhelming embarrassment feels.
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