Painterly folded plaid jacket and bow tie beside a paper shopping bag.

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Madam

Are you wearing a grocery bag?

— The Simpsons • 1989

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker asks, apparently in surprise, whether the person addressed is wearing a grocery bag. The question implies the clothing looks improvised or absurd, and the plain, direct wording gives it a comic bluntness rather than an elaborate insult.

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