Give me back my sweater or it's handbag marinara

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"Give me back my sweater or it's handbag marinara". Please explain to me how "it's handbag marinara" works. Does "marinara" as the adjective define "handbag"? Can you please give me a few more examples?
 

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In what context did you hear/see this?
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Say you're sorry or your sweater gets it.

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That is my favorite sweater!
That is my third-date sweater!

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Say you're sorry.

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You wanna play? Okay, let's play.

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Let's play.

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What are you gonna do?

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Give me back my sweater
or it's handbag marinara.



The first lady holds a sweater of the other lady who holds a handbag of the first one.
 

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There are no hyperlinks in your last post so there's nothing for us to listen to.
 

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While you sort out your links, I can tell you that "marinara" is a type of Italian dish. You can get pizza marinara, pasta marinara etc. You can Google it to find out more. It's clearly some kind of joke or threat involving someone's handbag going into some kind of pasta sauce. Without being able to see/hear the rest of it, that's the best I can do.
If you can't make the links work, you still need to tell us the source.
 

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My best guess is that the woman is threatening to throw the handbag into the sea. She's trying to be funny by making it sound like an Italian dish.
 

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It's clearly some kind of joke or threat involving someone's handbag going into some kind of pasta sauce.
Yes.

So "handbag marinara" is a dish -- a handbag served in marinara. And yes, "marinara" is an adjective modifying "handbag".
 
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