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I've been a bag boy a thousand times in five languages.
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The speaker says they have done the job of a bag boy many times, using five different languages. “A thousand times” emphasizes repeated experience rather than an exact count. The line presents an ordinary task alongside the unusual detail of doing it across several languages, in a brief, matter-of-fact way.
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