No, he didn’t come to me for a gun. I only said that because of you, thought maybe you’d want one, with being shot and everything.’ ‘Why the fuck would I want a gun? Would you ask a man who’s just been bitten by a shark if he wants to buy a shark?Jay Stringer
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A man who has been bitten by a shark refers to the fact that he was bitten by a shark. This is an example of an idiom in which the second part of the phrase, the words used in the second clause, is called an idiomatic expression.
Source: Ways To Die In Glasgow
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