CC Meets Hillary on the Boardwalk, Explained：blow a gasket

What's really going on

The scene is a meeting between two kinds of childhood, and CC is the one who runs it. She is a kid with a cigarette and an adult's patter — 'I must see a hundred cases like you every day' — and she uses it to take charge of a rich girl who has everything except a sense of direction. The guessing game about the hotel is really a test: big or small, ritzy or cheap. When she lands on the Marlboro Blenheim, she seals it with 'Bet your ass it's ritzy.' Hillary, by contrast, is polite and unsure, and her simple 'Hi, I'm Hillary Whitney' sets up the friendship the film will follow for decades. Leona's arrival adds the second half of CC's world: a stage mother who worries, scolds, and pushes her daughter toward a Hollywood scout.

Theme

このチャプターで学べること

• Bet your ass is a blunt way to say definitely
• Blow a gasket means explode with anger
• Ritzy describes a place that feels luxurious
• Skedaddle is an old, playful hurry-up

発音のポイント

• Don't tell — The t in Don't is often dropped before tell.
• walk you — The you weakens to a quick juh sound.
• do you — Do you blends into a single juh sound.