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Some Like It Hot · 1959 — 第 1 / 19 章 · 5'03" · B2

Cops Raid the Speakeasy, Explained：up the creek

The cops burst in shouting "This is a raid," and the funeral turns out to be a front for bootleggers. But the real joke comes after: Joe and Jerry are so broke that pawning the bass starts to sound like a plan, and one of them snaps, "We're up the creek and you want to hock the paddle."

あらすじ

A police raid interrupts a funeral where bootleggers have gathered. Officers arrest the mobsters, and Spats trades barbs with the cops before being led out. Afterward, bandmates Joe and Jerry wander Chicago flat broke; Jerry is sick and hungry, tempers fray over pawning the bass, and one of them insists they'll just find work.

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このシーンの表現

up the creek

in serious trouble

Jerry snaps that they are already broke, and hocking the paddle means sinking deeper.

Without a backup plan, we'll be up the creek.

このシーンの他の表現

  • raid

    a sudden police search

  • under arrest

    held by the police

  • the rap

    the criminal charge

  • front for someone

    acting as someone's front

  • solves one problem

    sarcasm: one problem gone

このシーンのメモ一覧

88 行のセリフに 27 件のメモ

表現 · B1be under arrest

held by the police

The agent declares everyone under arrest, turning the funeral into a mass detention.

I'm a federal agent! You're all under arrest!
表現 · B2put someone's name up for membership

proposed as a member

I'm puttin' your name up for membership.
発音puttin'

The g in putting drops, so it sounds like puttin'.

I'm puttin' your name up for membership.
発音What's the

What's the blurs together, with the barely voiced.

Big joke. What's the rap this time?
スラング · B2the rap

the criminal charge — Old gangster slang; avoid it in formal settings.

Big joke. What's the rap this time?
表現 · B2own the joint

own the place

We know you own the joint. Mozarella's just frontin' for you.
発音frontin' for

Link frontin' and for so the two words run together.

We know you own the joint. Mozarella's just frontin' for you.
スラング · C1frontin'

acting as a front — Street talk for posing as someone's public face.

We know you own the joint. Mozarella's just frontin' for you.
文法 · B2Too smart to drink

too...to pattern: Too smart to drink means he is so clever that he avoids his own product.

Too smart to drink your own stuff, huh?
表現 · B1buy something on credit

bought and paid later

Moe down at the delicatessen, no more knockwurst on credit.
表現 · A2on the way to somewhere

heading to a place

We can't borrow from the girls because they're on the way to jail.
スラング · B2bookie

a bookmaker — Gambling jargon for a bookmaker, common in speech.

I wonder how much Sam the bookie will give us for our overcoats.
スラング · B2Nothing doing

no way — A blunt refusal among friends; too rude for clients.

Nothing doing! You're not gonna put my overcoat on a dog. Oh, you...
表現 · B2be a sure thing

a certain win

Look, Jerry, I told you it's a sure thing.
表現 · A2below zero

under zero degrees

It is below zero. We'll get pneumonia.
表現 · A2go on

keep going

I can't go on, Joe.
表現 · A2a hole in something

a tear in the shoe

I'm weak from hunger, I'm running a fever, I got a hole in my shoe.
表現 · B1run a fever

have a high temperature

I'm weak from hunger, I'm running a fever, I got a hole in my shoe.
表現 · B1weak from something

faint with hunger

I'm weak from hunger, I'm running a fever, I got a hole in my shoe.
表現 · B1give someone a chance

let me prove myself

If you gave me a chance, we could be living like kings.
表現 · B1live like a king

living in luxury

If you gave me a chance, we could be living like kings.
文法 · B2If we hocked that and my sax, we could get

unreal conditional: This if plus a past tense with could describes an imagined, not real, possibility.

No, just your bass. If we hocked that and my sax, we could get at least...
表現 · C1be up the creek

in serious trouble

Jerry snaps that they are already broke, and hocking the paddle means sinking deeper.

Are you out of your mind? We're up the creek and you want to hock the paddle.
表現 · B2have a lot of nerve

a lot of cheek

- Well, you got a lot of nerve. - Thank you.
スラング · B2heel

a cad or jerk — An old-fashioned insult; never say it to someone's face.

What a heel.
文法 · B2Don't you remember

negative question: A negative question like don't you remember nudges someone to recall or admit something.

Don't you remember? You had this bad tooth.
表現 · B1make it up to someone

repay someone for a wrong

After standing Nellie up, Joe promises to make it up to her and smooth things over.

Nellie baby, I'll make it up to you.

「Cops Raid the Speakeasy」を読み解く

What's really going on

The raid is played as farce, but it sets up the film's real engine: desperation. Spats keeps his cool with sarcasm—offered a country-club membership, he answers, "I don't join nothin'." The cops mock him with a "pair of special spats, striped," turning his name into a joke. Meanwhile Joe and Jerry are the ones with nothing to lose, and their exchange about pawning the bass cuts deeper than the gangsters' banter. Jerry lists every way he's falling apart—"weak from hunger... running a fever... a hole in my shoe"—and the argument over selling the last instrument lands on a line built to sting: "We're up the creek and you want to hock the paddle." The comedy comes from how casually they treat ruin, but the stakes are real: the rent is due, the landlady will lock them out, and nobody is hiring.

Theme

Dark humorA funeral raid, mobsters joking about prison stripes, and two starving musicians trading quips make ruin feel like a punchline.
MoneyEveryone is chasing it: bootleggers protecting their racket, Joe betting on a long shot, and Jerry ready to pawn his bass to survive.

このチャプターで学べること

  • A raid announcement turns a funeral into a trap.
  • Sarcasm is how broke friends survive bad news.
  • Gangster slang rewards listeners who catch the charge and the bookie.

発音のポイント

  • puttin' — The g in putting drops, so it sounds like puttin'.
  • What's the — What's the blurs together, with the barely voiced.
  • frontin' for — Link frontin' and for so the two words run together.
I'm weak from hunger, I'm running a fever, I got a hole in my shoe.

A comic inventory of misery: hunger, fever, a ruined shoe. The speaker is worn down and listing every reason he can't keep going.

Are you out of your mind? We're up the creek and you want to hock the paddle.

The rebuke to a plan to sell their last instrument: they're already in deep trouble, and giving up the paddle would only sink them further.

Now we don't have to worry about who we're gonna pay first.

A bitter joke about being broke. Their friends are off to jail and there's no money anyway, so the question of which creditor to pay first has stopped mattering.

I'm a federal agent! You're all under arrest!

The moment a funeral becomes a raid: the raider identifies himself as federal law and declares everyone in the room a prisoner.

What do you want from me, my head on a plate?

An exasperated answer to relentless demands—it means the speaker feels squeezed for everything, down to his own head.

このシーンについての質問

Why does the raid interrupt a funeral?

The funeral is a cover: the men gathered are bootleggers, and the place is a front for selling liquor dressed up as coffee. Federal agents stage the raid to arrest Spats and the others, which is why the cops joke about special striped spats and "embalming people with coffee."

What does "the rap" mean here?

"The rap" is old gangster slang for a charge or accusation. When the man asks, "What's the rap this time?" he's asking what crime the police are pinning on him now.

Are Joe and Jerry in real danger, or just broke?

At this point it's mostly broke: no jobs, no credit, a landlord ready to lock them out, and a freezing Chicago winter. Their bigger trouble comes later, after they stumble onto something they were never meant to see.

Why won't they pawn the bass?

Sell the bass and they lose the one thing that might still get them a gig. One of them calls it hocking the paddle while they're up the creek—giving up the tool that could pull them out of trouble.

Who is Spats, and what's with the "special spats" line?

Spats is the mobster the cops are after. His name literally means the cloth shoe covers he always wears, so a cop taunts him with a prison tailor fitting him for "special spats, striped"—striped like prison issue.

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