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There Is Always A Bigger Fish Height Comparison Meme

This meme is a three-panel side-by-side collage. The first panel shows short actor and comedian Kevin Hart standing next to famously large actor and former wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who towers over Hart. The second panel shows Dwayne Johnson standing next to retired 7ft 1in NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, who is noticeably taller and larger than Johnson. The third panel shows Shaquille O'Neal standing next to retired 7ft 6in Chinese NBA star Yao Ming, who towers over O'Neal. The text at the top of the meme reads "There is always a bigger fish in the sea!", a common idiom meaning no matter how impressive or powerful a person seems, there is always someone who outmatches them, humorously visualized here using the increasing height of the celebrity pairs.
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This meme is a three-panel side-by-side collage. The first panel shows short actor and comedian Kevin Hart standing next to famously large actor and former wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who towers over Hart. The second panel shows Dwayne Johnson standing next to retired 7ft 1in NBA star Shaquille O'Neal, who is noticeably taller and larger than Johnson. The third panel shows Shaquille O'Neal standing next to retired 7ft 6in Chinese NBA star Yao Ming, who towers over O'Neal. The text at the top of the meme reads "There is always a bigger fish in the sea!", a common idiom meaning no matter how impressive or powerful a person seems, there is always someone who outmatches them, humorously visualized here using the increasing height of the celebrity pairs.

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This meme was sourced from the X.com (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme via an RSS feed. It is a widely circulated viral collage meme that combines publicly available event and candid photos of the four famous public figures, shared across social media platforms like X, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok to make lighthearted, relatable jokes about how there is always someone more capable or larger than you in any context.

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This meme is a collage of three side-by-side photographs paired with the common English idiom 'There is always a bigger fish' at the top, to literalize the idiom with height comparisons of very tall, famous public figures. The first photo shows comedian Kevin Hart, who is shorter in stature, standing next to actor and former wrestler Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, who is widely considered very large and tall. The second photo shows Dwayne Johnson standing next to former professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, who towers over Johnson. The third photo shows Shaquille O'Neal standing next to former professional basketball player Yao Ming, who is even taller than O'Neal. The comedic effect comes from showing that each person perceived as very large or impressive in their own right is still smaller than someone else, matching the meaning of the idiom that there is always someone more powerful, capable, or larger than you.

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