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Rounders · 1998 — 第 8 / 26 章 · 2'20" · B2

Grama Threatens Worm, Explained：the juice is still runnin'

What looks like a debt negotiation is really a power play: one man turns five separate debts into a single $25,000 obligation, then takes the cash on the spot. “I consolidated your outstanding debt” sounds like bookkeeping, but it means the debtor now answers to one person.

あらすじ

Worm runs into Grama and offers to put him back on the payroll in two weeks, but Grama says he is out on his own now. He then lays out the debt: $25,000 owed to one man instead of $15,000 spread across five, interest still running, and the cash on hand is taken.

ThreatsNegotiationThreateningBargainingB2fastamerican
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注目の表現

put someone back on the payrollgo figurewhere the fuck do you get offthe juice is still runnin'

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このシーンの表現

the juice is still runnin'

interest keeps accruing

The terms are recited like a ledger entry: the principal is fixed, and the interest keeps growing.

He paid the principal, but the juice is still runnin' on the old loan.

このシーンの他の表現

  • put someone back on the payroll

    hire someone again

  • go figure

    that's hard to explain

  • where the fuck do you get off

    who do you think you are

  • consolidate outstanding debt

    combine unpaid debts

  • put someone under one's flag

    take someone under one's protection

このシーンのメモ一覧

46 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

スラング · B2fuckin'

fucking (intensifier) — Casual swearing among friends; never in formal settings.

Hey, fuckin' Grama. How you doin'?
表現 · B1could use someone/something

could really use your help

- I was just thinkin' about you. You know, I could use you. - Oh, yeah?
発音put you back

Let put you blur together, glide through back on, and land on payroll.

See me in, like, two weeks. I'll put you back on the payroll.
表現 · B1out on one's own

working independently

Well, I got some bad news for ya, Worm. I'm out on my own now.
発音out on my own

Link out on smoothly, stress own, and let now fall at the end.

Well, I got some bad news for ya, Worm. I'm out on my own now.
表現 · C1put together a roll

build up a bankroll roll means a bankroll, not a roll of paper

I know, Grama, that's why I'm trying to put together a roll here.
文法 · B1asking if I could help

indirect question: The if-clause keeps statement order, so it reports the question instead of asking it directly.

A lot of people coming up to me, asking if I could help, asking if I knew where to find you.
表現 · B2get someone thinking

got me thinking

- So, it got me to thinkin'. - Really, you thinkin' now? That's big.
表現 · B1take it easy

calm down

Hey, Jesus! Come on! Take it easy.
発音outta here

outta compresses out of; keep here stressed and don't restore the missing of.

Get the fuck outta here. What did I say?
表現 · B2spread something out to someone

split among five people the debt is split, not physically spread out

Instead of you owing 15 grand spread out to five guys, you owe 25 to me.
文法 · B2Instead of you owing 15 grand

gerund after preposition: The whole 'you owing...' phrase sits inside instead of, naming the old arrangement before replacing it.

Instead of you owing 15 grand spread out to five guys, you owe 25 to me.
発音get off

Lift the pitch on get off and hit off hard; it should sound like a challenge.

What? Where the fuck do you get off? 25 grand?
表現 · C1be someone's lackey

was your underling

No, no, I was your lackey.
表現 · C1get the scratch for something

get the money for it scratch means money here

Where'd you get the scratch for that?
スラング · C1rolling fags

robbing gay men — A homophobic slur; understand it only, never repeat it.

You've been rolling fags in the Village again.
スラング · B2wise ass

smart aleck — Joking insult among familiars; not for superiors.

Still a wise ass. Unbelievable.
表現 · B2go partners with someone

become business partners with

What I did was go partners with an old friend of yours.
文法 · C1What I did was go partners

pseudo-cleft: The What-clause puts the action in focus, and was is followed by the bare verb go.

What I did was go partners with an old friend of yours.
表現 · B2back someone

financially backed me back means to fund or support, not move backward

Teddy KGB backed me.
スラング · B2Bullshit

nonsense — Blunt disbelief among familiars; keep it out of formal talk.

Bullshit. Bullshit.
スラング · B2goons

thugs — Mob or joking talk; avoid in formal settings.

Teddy's got plenty of goons.
表現 · C1buy up someone's debt

bought up my debt bought up my debt, not the person

What, so you bought me up, Grama?
表現 · C1X cents on the dollar

at thirty cents per dollar

Yeah, got a real sweet deal, too. 30 cents on the dollar.
表現 · B2faith in someone

confidence in you

There's not a lot of faith in you out there in the business community.
表現 · C1collection methods

ways of collecting debts here it means debt-collection methods

Not exactly. I don't have to tell you my collection methods.
表現 · B2what someone has on them

what you have on you here, the cash in his pockets

- So I'm gonna take what you got on you right now. - Here. Fine.

「Grama Threatens Worm」を読み解く

What's really going on

One side presents the new debt as a simple consolidation: instead of owing five people, the other now owes one. The language is almost corporate—“I consolidated your outstanding debt”—but the effect is to turn a loose set of debts into a single, larger trap. The line “the juice is still runnin'” makes the trap explicit: the principal has grown and the clock has not stopped. One line points out that other people are angry, which turns the debt into a social threat as much as a financial one. The reply “I was your lackey” cuts against the word partner: not partnership, but a hierarchy being enforced on new terms.

Theme

MoneyDebt is not just money here; it is leverage, with five debts collapsed into one larger obligation and interest still running.
PowerThe scene turns a financial transaction into a demonstration of control, taking cash on the spot and reminding the debtor who is owed.

発音のポイント

  • put you back — Let put you blur together, glide through back on, and land on payroll.
  • out on my own — Link out on smoothly, stress own, and let now fall at the end.
  • outta here — outta compresses out of; keep here stressed and don't restore the missing of.
  • get off — Lift the pitch on get off and hit off hard; it should sound like a challenge.
Well, I got some bad news for ya, Worm. I'm out on my own now.

The line rejects the offer of work and claims independence; it is bad news for the person offering because the old arrangement no longer applies.

Instead of you owing 15 grand spread out to five guys, you owe 25 to me.

The debt is being restructured: five separate creditors become one, and the total rises from $15,000 to $25,000.

Here's how it is. 25 grand, and the juice is still runnin'.

The new $25,000 debt is not frozen; interest keeps accumulating, so the amount owed will keep growing.

No, no, I was your lackey.

The reply rejects the word partner and recasts the old relationship as boss and subordinate.

There's not a lot of faith in you out there in the business community.

People in the lending world do not trust the debtor, which is used to justify buying the debt cheaply.

このシーンについての質問

Why does Worm now owe $25,000 instead of $15,000?

One line says the debts Worm owed to five people have been consolidated into one debt to the speaker. The new total is $25,000, and the line about the juice says interest is still running.

What does “the juice is still runnin'” mean?

It means interest is still accumulating. The line follows the new $25,000 figure, so the debt is not fixed: it keeps growing while Worm owes it.

Why is the cash on Worm taken?

One line says he will take what Worm has on him right now, right after a promise to scrape something together. The cash is treated as immediate payment against the debt.

Is the promise to pay later accepted?

No. A promise to find him this week is met with “That's just what I figured” before the cash on hand is taken. The scene ends with a mock send-off, not an agreement.

Why does the line about the business community sting?

It says there is not a lot of faith in Worm in the business community. In context, that lack of trust is used to explain why his debt was bought at 30 cents on the dollar.

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