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M*A*S*H · 1970 — 第 14 / 22 章 · 3'21" · B2

Hot Lips Confronts Colonel Blake, Explained：get away with

Humiliated by the shower stunt, Hot Lips marches on Colonel Blake and demands the culprits be punished. She calls the camp a madhouse and threatens to resign if he won't act. His answer is a flat one: "What do you want me to do? Put them under arrest."

あらすじ

After the shower prank, Major Houlihan storms into Colonel Blake's office, furious that the camp watched her humiliated. She calls the place an insane asylum, blames Blake for letting the men run wild, and demands he hand the culprits to the military police; if he won't, she says, she'll resign her commission.

Talking to the bossArgumentsComplainingThreateningBoss & employeeB2slowamerican
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注目の表現

bastardsget away withcourt-martialresign one's commission

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このシーンの表現

get away with

do wrong without punishment

Hot Lips accuses Henry of letting the men get away with the insult, with no consequences at all.

He thinks he can get away with lying, but he can't.

このシーンの他の表現

  • bastards

    a strong insult for people

  • court-martial

    a military court or trial

  • resign one's commission

    give up a military post

  • turn over to

    hand someone to authorities

  • say hello to

    greet someone

このシーンのメモ一覧

46 行のセリフに 24 件のメモ

スラング · B2finks

despicable people, informers — An old-fashioned insult with a sneer; rare today.

Bravo! [ All Hollering, Whistling ] You finks! You finks!
表現 · B1win the bet

win the wager

Twenty bucks, huh? You win the bet.
スラング · A2bucks

dollars — Casual American word for dollars; use dollars in writing.

Twenty bucks, huh? You win the bet.
表現 · B1what went on

what happened

Major, what went on over there? Where's Colonel Blake?
表現 · A2go and see someone

go to meet someone

Wait a second. You can't go and see Colonel Blake.
表現 · A2shut up

be quiet

You shut up, you twerp!
スラング · B1twerp

a foolish little person — A scornful little insult, like schoolyard name-calling.

You shut up, you twerp!
発音isn't a

Isn't and a link up and sound like is-n-ta.

This isn't a hospital! It's an insane asylum!
表現 · A2be someone's fault

you are to blame

And it's your fault because you don't do anything to discourage them!
表現 · B1do anything to do something

take any action to

And it's your fault because you don't do anything to discourage them!
文法 · B1because you don't do anything to discourage them

reason clause: The because-clause gives the reason behind the accusation of fault.

And it's your fault because you don't do anything to discourage them!
表現 · B1put someone under arrest

place someone in custody

What do you want me to do? Put them under arrest.
文法 · B2what a court-martial thinks of

noun clause: The what-clause serves as the object of see, meaning see how it will be judged.

See what a court-martial thinks of their drunken hooliganism!
発音get away

The t in get flaps and runs into away, almost ged-away.

First they called me Hot Lips, and you let them get away with it!
表現 · B1this minute

right now

turn them over to the M.P.'s this minute, I-I'm going to resign my commission!
スラング · B2M.P.'s

military police — Military shorthand for the military police.

turn them over to the M.P.'s this minute, I-I'm going to resign my commission!
表現 · B1my dear

an affectionate address

Little more wine, my dear?
表現 · B1get what one wants

obtain what he desires

Let him get what he wants. We'll go to the movie. Keep it straight, eh?
表現 · A2first of all

before anything else

First of all, the present. Then dinner, then the movie.
表現 · A2all N of us

the three of us together

You mean all three of us? Who is this?
発音Where you from

In casual speech the are is dropped: Where you from.

Where you from? A MASH outfit on the front line.
表現 · A2someone's hometown

the town you come from

- No, I mean your hometown. - Uh, on the East Coast.
表現 · B1be wounded

have been injured

Have you been wounded yet?
文法 · B2if I could

elliptical conditional: If I could stands alone here, politely meaning if that were possible.

I'd like to say hello to my father if I could.

「Hot Lips Confronts Colonel Blake」を読み解く

What's really going on

The scene is about who gets to decide what is a joke. The camp has humiliated Hot Lips, and to the men it was a prank that ended with applause and a bet paid off — "Twenty bucks, huh? You win the bet." Hot Lips does not experience it as a gag. She lists the damage plainly: "First they called me Hot Lips, and you let them get away with it." Her grievance is less about the stunt itself than about Blake's refusal to enforce any line, and her threat to resign is really a demand that someone take her side. Blake answers with exhaustion rather than authority, telling her to go ahead and resign. It is a small, ugly fight about respect, and the film gives her anger real weight even as it refuses to give her justice.

Theme

PowerA major demands punishment but the colonel holds the real authority, and his shrug ends the argument.
SatireA humiliating prank is treated as a joke by everyone except the person it targeted.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A threat dies fast when the other side simply agrees.
  • Her list starts with first, and the anger builds itself.
  • Calling a place an asylum is the shortest possible verdict.
  • Even rage here has a legal vocabulary behind it.

発音のポイント

  • isn't a — Isn't and a link up and sound like is-n-ta.
  • get away — The t in get flaps and runs into away, almost ged-away.
  • Where you from — In casual speech the are is dropped: Where you from.
This isn't a hospital! It's an insane asylum!

Hot Lips' verdict on the camp: the discipline has collapsed so far that the whole place feels like a madhouse.

And it's your fault because you don't do anything to discourage them!

She blames Blake not for the prank but for tolerating it — his failure to enforce discipline is, in her view, what lets the men act this way.

First they called me Hot Lips, and you let them get away with it!

Her central complaint: the nickname stuck because nobody was punished for it. "Get away with it" means escaping any consequence.

What do you want me to do? Put them under arrest.

Blake's response is a shrug: he has no intention of jailing the men, and he throws her demand back at her as unreasonable.

Goddamn it, Hot Lips, resign your goddamn commission.

Blake calls her bluff and drops the honorific, using her nickname to show he will not treat this as a formal crisis. It is exhaustion, not discipline.

Twenty bucks, huh? You win the bet.

The men's reaction in one line: the prank was a wager, and someone is already collecting. It underlines how little the camp treats the humiliation as serious.

このシーンについての質問

Why is Hot Lips so angry at Colonel Blake?

Not just because of the prank itself, but because nobody is punished for it. She says the men got away with calling her "Hot Lips," and she wants Blake to hand the culprits to the M.P.'s and see them court-martialed.

Does Hot Lips really resign?

She threatens to, betting that Blake will stop her. He calls her bluff and tells her to go ahead. The threat is a way of forcing him to choose a side, and it fails.

Why doesn't Blake punish the men?

He clearly has no appetite for it. His line "What do you want me to do? Put them under arrest?" frames punishment as absurd, and he treats the whole thing as camp behavior he cannot police.

What was the shower prank exactly?

The men staged a stunt around Hot Lips in the shower and the camp watched it as entertainment, applauding and even betting on it. The scene picks up right after, as she realizes the whole unit saw her humiliated.

What does "let them get away with it" mean?

To let someone escape any consequence for something they did. Hot Lips says the men called her "Hot Lips" and nobody stopped them, so the insult was allowed to stand.

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