to say bad things about someone
Sandra rebukes Jamie for making fun of someone who has died.
You shouldn't speak ill of the dead.Beautiful Thing · 1996 — 第 4 / 11 章 · 3'06" · B2
Sandra and Jamie Trade Insults, Explained：butter wouldn't melt
Sandra and her son Jamie trade insults in front of Ste and Tony, the jokes getting meaner as they go. When Sandra complains about working "all the hours God sends," Jamie snaps, "Why don't you try and be a bit more like a mother to me?" — and the room goes quiet.
あらすじ
Sandra and her son Jamie spend the afternoon trading wisecracks while Ste and Tony listen. The talk runs from a school visit and Mama Cass's death to TV quizzes and drinking, and the mother-son needling keeps sharpening until Jamie tells Sandra to "be a bit more like a mother" and she fires back that she is a terrible mother who never had one of her own.
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このシーンの表現
butter wouldn't melt
looking innocent while being sly
Sandra uses the old phrase on Jamie, meaning he only pretends to be innocent.
He looks like butter wouldn't melt, but he planned the whole prank.
このシーンの他の表現
- bastard
a rude word for a nasty man
- got your number
to have someone figured out
- speak ill of
to say bad things about someone
- gobble down
to eat very fast
このシーンのメモ一覧
57 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
what a pity
It's a shame how she died.to eat very fast
Sandra uses the story to remind Jamie not to wolf his chips down.
Now you know why I tell you not to gobble your chips down.The l in gobble slides straight into your.
Now you know why I tell you not to gobble your chips down.a welcome end to suffering
Well, I suppose if you're that fat, drugs are probably a happy release.something — Northern British dialect; only in casual talk.
Why wasn't it a walloping great fry-up or summat?a know-it-all
Hark at her, the fountain of all knowledge.to match someone's level
When you can keep up with the questions on Bob's Full House, get back to me, okay?to open a drink
Tony, crack me open another one, will you?along the back of something
I fancy something wet dribbling down the back of me gullet. What do you say?a cheeky joke about taking it in
Well, you can say what you like, love, but it's better in than out, do you know what I mean?your father
Bet you don't talk to your old man like that, eh, Ste?a man, a guy — Very common British word for a man.
Weren't so funny when that bloke of yours beat you up, was it?to work extremely long hours
I work all the hours God sends just to keep you in insults.reduced relative: That is dropped after hours, leaving God sends as the clause that defines them.
I work all the hours God sends just to keep you in insults.looking innocent while being sly
Sandra uses the old phrase on Jamie, meaning he only pretends to be innocent.
Oh, look at you. Butter wouldn't melt.to have someone figured out
Sandra tells Jamie she has his number, meaning she knows exactly what he is up to.
That's all right, Jamie. I've got your number.Got your fuses into a single quick sound.
That's all right, Jamie. I've got your number.to try a trick on someone
Oh, pull that one on me.to be totally incompetent
I'm a terrible mother who don't know her arse from her elbow.relative clause: The who-clause describes the mother, with a dialect mismatch in verb form.
I'm a terrible mother who don't know her arse from her elbow.「Sandra and Jamie Trade Insults」を読み解く
What's really going on
The sparring is love in the only language this family has. Sandra and Jamie insult each other constantly — dead singers, TV quizzes, each other's intelligence — and the jokes are warm until they are not. Sandra's real wound is on display: "I work all the hours God sends just to keep you in insults." Jamie's retort, "Why don't you try and be a bit more like a mother to me?", lands because it is unfair and true at once, and Sandra's answer is the bruise underneath the comedy: "I'm a terrible mother who don't know her arse from her elbow. I never had a mother, so what do I know about bringing up kids?" The scene ends with Jamie striking the one nerve he cannot take back, the mother who abandoned her, and Sandra's slap that follows is both a joke and a real wound.
Theme
Family conflictSandra and Jamie insult each other throughout, and the fight only becomes real when Jamie mentions the mother who abandoned her.
ParenthoodSandra's defense is her own motherlessness: 'I never had a mother, so what do I know about bringing up kids?'
このチャプターで学べること
- Butter wouldn't melt mocks fake innocence
- Got your number means you're figured out
- Speak ill of is to talk badly about someone
- Gobble down is to eat too fast
発音のポイント
- gobble your — The l in gobble slides straight into your.
- got your — Got your fuses into a single quick sound.
You shouldn't speak ill of the dead.The mock-pious rule Sandra invokes mid-banter, which the family breaks immediately by joking about the singer's death.
I work all the hours God sends just to keep you in insults.Sandra's real complaint under the jokes: her life is spent working so that Jamie can spend his sharpening insults at her.
So why don't you try and be a bit more like a mother to me?Jamie's accusation that cuts past the banter, demanding the maternal care he feels he never got.
He makes me die, he does.The affectionate verdict on Jamie's wit, showing that the insults are also the family's way of playing.
このシーンについての質問
What does 'butter wouldn't melt' mean?
It means someone looks innocent and mild but is not. Sandra says it of Jamie while he is needling her, implying he only looks harmless.
Why do Sandra and Jamie insult each other?
It is their family's way of talking and playing. The jibes about quizzes, intelligence and dead singers are affectionate until Jamie turns to her parenting.
What does Sandra say about being a mother?
She calls herself a terrible mother who does not know her arse from her elbow, and says she never had a mother herself, so she does not know how to raise kids.
Why does Jamie mention Sandra's mother?
He says he is not surprised the woman abandoned her, which hits Sandra's deepest wound in the middle of the banter. She lashes out at him.
Who is Ste, and what does he add?
Ste is Jamie's friend, sitting through the banter. He says he goes boxing with his dad and that he does not speak at home — a quiet contrast to the loud family around him.
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