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Iclearwater Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

You're selling milk

Hi,

Would anyone please explain "selling milk" means in the following context, which is from The Simpsons-American Cartoon?

May I post multi-questions in a thread with the same context? For example, I still have the other questions on the expressions in the dialogue as below. Many thanks!




Guy: Keep your meat hooks off my sister Marge or my goons will do a soft show on your solar plexus

Homer: You're dead, J.J. Get yourself buried.

Guy: Tough cookie huh,well, watch me take a bite out of ya.

Homer: I'm about to go out shooting and you just said who.

Guy: That's some lip you got on you. How'd you like me to stretch it like a rubber band and snap you into last week?

Homer: You're selling milk, J.J. and I got a sour stomach.

  

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It's a parody of 1940's metaphors. He's essentially saying "you're trying to make me sick". Ask as many questions as you like.

  • It's a parody of 1940's metaphors.
  • He's essentially saying "you're trying to make me sick".
  • Ask as many questions as you like.
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It's a parody of 1940's metaphors. He's essentially saying "you're trying to make me sick".

Ask as many questions as you like.

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