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Hi, there
Could you help me with two questions? Please
1) On a tv show called "Two broke girls", an entertaining lawyer(what is exactly that??) and a woman's ex-boyfriend is recording a video and he says:
"This movie's got such large budget, they even got the lawyer is own trailer. Oh! Scratch that.I am sharing it with a very large scorpion"... Then the woman's friend says: You are jealous of a scorpion now? That's where we're at?"
what does "That's where we're at?" mean? Does it mean "Did our situation/life get this bad?" or "Has our situation/life gotten this bad?"? Neither?
2) A woman is taking dollars out of her breasts and she takes 11 dollars out of her left breast and 32 out of her right breast. Then she says: "Lefty has been holding back as per usual".. What does it mean?
Thank you very much
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1) 'That's where we're at?' You're pretty much right. It means 'is that what our relationship currently is like?' In this context, she is referring to their relationship being bad, so you're right in this context, but it can be said to mean the relationship is good in a different situation.
2) 'holding back' in this context means her breast isn't trying its hardest, it isn't giving as much as it could.
This is a joke because in women, one breast often doesn't grow quite as big as the other. So it is 'holding back'.
Hope that makes sense!
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