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Two presidents flag a ride to Cleveland and call it a fact-finding mission. The driver wants a watch, not a speech. Beneath the bargain sits a class clash. "This really steams my clams" mourns a Gorbachev watch, and a later line says these Washington men would not know the plain truth if it jumped up at them.
A Watch Pays for the Ride
The Plain Truth Bites Back
Matt Douglas and President Kramer are broke on the road to Cleveland. One of them tells a driver who they are, claims a fact-finding mission for the interstate commerce commission, and asks for a ride with no cash. She takes a watch instead. In the car, talk of a burrito turns into a fight about weight and whether men from Washington can see the plain truth.
The ride begins as a con. Broke, and admitting "We don't have any other choice," the two presidents package a hitchhike as a "fact-finding mission" for the interstate commerce commission, a way to "gain a personal perspective" on the interstate system. The driver skips the ceremony. "I'll take your watch" turns the appeal into a price. The anger that follows is about status. "This really steams my clams" follows the loss of a Constellation watch given by Gorbachev. Someone adds that only two like it exist. Food talk does not cool the car. A compliment about dieting slides into weight, and the driver ends it with "You wouldn't know the plain truth if it jumped up and bit you in the butt." She is answering the flattery. She has called herself obese, and she says they still would not know the plain truth. In this car, Washington means people who talk past a fact until the person giving the ride names it.
A1–C2 es la escala MCER. Las tarjetas por encima del nivel elegido se atenúan y la reproducción no se pausa en ellas.
“You wouldn't know the plain truth if it jumped up and bit you in the butt.”
Making truth a biting animal turns stubborn denial into a picture nobody forgets.
Informal
“What's wrong with you? I'm obese. Open your damn eyes.”
Blunt self-honesty aimed straight at polite denial.
Informal
“We don't have any other choice.”
Plain surrender; the line admits there is no way out.
Neutral
“You know, that's the trouble with you boys in Washington.”
A plain-spoken verdict aimed at everyone who runs the capital.
Informal
Siguiente · 08live in the pastLa escena: Old Rivals Almost BondThey have no cash, and they say they have no other choice. The driver answers with "I'll take your watch." A speaker protests that Gorbachev gave him the watch and that only two like it exist, but the talk moves on to food, so the watch is what buys the ride.
Someone tells her she does not need to diet and adds that she looks good carrying an extra hundred pounds. She has already said she is obese. She treats the flattery as a dodge and says they would miss the plain truth even if it jumped up at them.
It is an old, comic way to say a person is furious. In the car it follows the loss of the watch: a gift from Gorbachev is gone, and only two like it exist, so the speaker is boiling.
No. Someone introduces Matt Douglas and President Kramer and calls the ride a fact-finding mission for the interstate commerce commission, a way to judge the highways in person. Just before the pitch, they admit they hope the story works because they have no other choice.
