Wilma: The mummy left his calling card
Shaggy: It looks more like a piece of that tape he's all wrapped up in to me.
Wilma: It is, Shaggy. But it sure doesn't feel 3000 years old to me.

What does calling card mean here?

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Wilma: The mummy left his calling card
Shaggy: It looks more like a piece of that tape he's all wrapped up in to me.
Wilma: It is, Shaggy. But it sure doesn't feel 3000 years old to me.

What does calling card mean here?

Answer

Hi Yagub! In this context, the statement is sarcastic. It means he left evidence that he was there, like someone might leave behind a business card.

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Hi, Yagub. Wilma's using an idiomatic expression. In the past, people would leave a card with their name and contact information whenever they visited a friend's house or place of business and the person they had come to see wasn't available. Nowadays we use it to mean somebody left evidence that they were there, which is how Wilma means it here.

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