Elaine, breaking up is like knocking over a Coke machine. You can’t do it in one push. You gotta rock it back and forth a few times, and then it goes over.

Jerry Seinfeld

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Breaking up Relationship challenges Relationships

Speaker

Jerry Seinfeld

Actor

Jerry Seinfeld

Source

Seinfeld

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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"The Voice." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Berg, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 9, episode 2, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1997.

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