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Lay off me I'm starving!!!!
— Saturday Night Live ‧ 1975
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker couples a demand to be left alone with an urgent claim of hunger. The second part is offered as a sufficient explanation for the first. Its exaggerated wording makes an immediate appetite take precedence over whatever objections or attention prompted the outburst.
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