You Can't Take It with You · 1938 — 第 4 / 27 章 · 4'17" · B2

Poppins Meets the Sycamores, Explained:the daylights out of

Poppins is introduced to the whole Sycamore household, and when Penny is stuck in her play he suggests she write about "ism" mania instead: "everybody's got an 'ism' these days." The scene turns into a quiet joke about politics and the ease of picking a side.

あらすじ

Poppins meets the Sycamores one by one and is welcomed as a guest. When Penny complains that she is stuck in her play, he suggests a new subject: "ism" mania, since everyone these days seems to have an ideology. She likes the idea and adapts it for her character.

Small talkPartiesSuggestingExplainingFriendsB2slowamericanClean
IMDb ↗

注目の表現

have a chaircome to youloan somebodydeliver the ice

00:00 / 04:17
Space 再生 · ← → セリフ移動 · R リピート
いま
  1. ❝ 独白Grandpa's Americanism speech6 行練習ページ ↗
セリフをタップするとそこから再生

このシーンの表現

the daylights out of

beat someone badly

Grandpa contrasts old mercy with modern bullying and mimics the threat in his opponent's voice.

The sudden noise scared the daylights out of me.

このシーンの他の表現

  • have a chair

    take a seat

  • come to you

    occur to you

  • loan somebody

    lend someone money

  • deliver the ice

    bring ice to the door

  • why don't you

    how about you

このシーンのメモ一覧

72 行のセリフに 29 件のメモ

表現 · B1help oneself to something

take some yourself

Help yourself to a Love Dream, Mr. Poppins. They're over there on the table.
表現 · B1sort of

kind of

Yes, I sort of got myself in a monastery and I can't get out.
文法 · B2got myself in a monastery

reflexive verb: Get oneself into something means to put yourself in a situation, with the reflexive pointing back at the doer.

Yes, I sort of got myself in a monastery and I can't get out.
発音sort of

Sort of often weakens into sorta in quick speech.

Yes, I sort of got myself in a monastery and I can't get out.
表現 · B1come to someone

occur to you

Penny is stuck in her monastery scene, and her father assures her the solution will come to her.

It'll come to you. Remember how you got out of that jail?
表現 · A2stop doing something

quit doing

I think she ought to stop working in that millinery shop.
文法 · B1she hasn't been there for

present perfect: Hasn't been there for five months covers a stretch running up to now and still true.

Penny, she hasn't been there for five months.
表現 · B2borrow money on something

get a loan on

Essie's dancing teacher wants to borrow $100 on his car.
表現 · B1loan someone something

lend someone money

Someone needs a loan, and the family shrugs that Kirby and Company just lent out eighty million.

Sure, Kirby and Company just loaned somebody $80 million.
表現 · B1son-in-law

daughter's husband

Mr. Poppins, this is Mr. Sycamore, my son-in-law.
表現 · A2deliver the ice

bring ice to the door

Poppins recalls the day nine years ago when he delivered the ice to the house and first had the idea.

Yes, that's what I thought, that day nine years ago when I delivered the ice.
スラング · B1ice man

iceman — A dated job title from before electric refrigerators.

You were the ice man.
表現 · B1all by oneself

on your own

Did you make that all by yourself?
スラング · B2beats all

is amazing — Old-fashioned surprise or admiration; too dated for formal writing.

That beats all.
表現 · A2Why don't you ...?

how about you

Seeing Penny stuck, Grandpa suggests she write a play about the craze for isms.

Why don't you write a play about "ism" mania?
表現 · B1these days

nowadays

Grandpa complains that everybody has to wave some ism around in the present climate.

You know, communism, fascism, voodooism, everybody's got an "ism" these days.
発音got an

Link got and an so they sound like one unit.

You know, communism, fascism, voodooism, everybody's got an "ism" these days.
スラング · B2"ism"

an ism, mockingly — A mocking label for any fashionable doctrine.

You know, communism, fascism, voodooism, everybody's got an "ism" these days.
スラング · B1or something

or whatever — A casual tag that softens an uncertain guess.

I thought it was an itch or something.
表現 · B2be in business

ready to operate

Grandpa mocks the habit of grabbing an ism whenever life gets hard, as if that sets you up in business.

When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out and get yourself an "ism," and you're in business.
文法 · B1When things go a little bad

time clause: The when-clause sets the recurring moment: whenever life turns bad, people grab an ism.

When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out and get yourself an "ism," and you're in business.
発音get yourself an

Get yourself an tends to run together as one phrase.

When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out and get yourself an "ism," and you're in business.
表現 · C1at that

indeed

Penny says an ism might unstick her heroine, and her father agrees it just might work.

It might at that.
表現 · A2let someone know

tell someone

Only give her Americanism. Let her know something about Americans.
表現 · B1get tough

become hard

When things got tough with those boys, they didn't run around looking for "isms."
文法 · B2didn't run around looking

negated participle: Didn't run around looking means they did not go about searching, with looking spelling out the activity.

When things got tough with those boys, they didn't run around looking for "isms."
表現 · C1the daylights out of someone

beat someone badly

Grandpa contrasts old mercy with modern bullying and mimics the threat in his opponent's voice.

Nowadays they say, "Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights out of you."
発音out of you

Out of you often blurs into outta-you.

Nowadays they say, "Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights out of you."
スラング · C1bomb the daylights out of

blast someone hard — An exaggerated threat, never literal; avoid it in formal talk.

Nowadays they say, "Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights out of you."

「Poppins Meets the Sycamores」を読み解く

What's really going on

The chapter is the film's gentlest piece of political satire, and it is delivered by an eccentric inventor who barely knows what politics is. Poppins notices that ideologies are fashionable and treats them like a product, saying that when times get hard, you get yourself an ism and you are in business. The joke cuts both ways, because he is not attacking any particular cause, only the ease with which people adopt one. Then he names what he actually values, quoting Lincoln's line, "With malice toward none, with charity for all," and contrasting it with the modern threat: "Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights out of you." The scene is funny, and underneath it is the film's plainest statement of what it believes.

Theme

SatirePoppins treats fashionable ideologies as a consumer product, gently mocking a decade of competing isms.
PhilosophyThe scene sets Lincoln's charity against the modern habit of threatening anyone who disagrees.

このチャプターで学べること

  • Grandpa turns a family chat into an argument about national character.
  • The list of isms shows how a running gag can carry a theme.
  • In business stretches from shops to anything that is ready to go.
  • These days quietly sets today against an older, better past.

発音のポイント

  • sort of — Sort of often weakens into sorta in quick speech.
  • got an — Link got and an so they sound like one unit.
  • get yourself an — Get yourself an tends to run together as one phrase.
  • out of you — Out of you often blurs into outta-you.
You know, communism, fascism, voodooism, everybody's got an "ism" these days.

The observation that turns politics into a fad, listing isms as if they were brands.

Nowadays they say, "Think the way I do or I'll bomb the daylights out of you."

His blunt summary of modern intolerance, said with the calm of a man stating the weather.

Lincoln said, "With malice toward none, with charity for all."

The quote he offers as a contrast, the standard he thinks the country has abandoned.

When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out and get yourself an "ism," and you're in business.

His theory of ideology as a business decision, funny because it is nearly true.

このシーンについての質問

What does Poppins mean by "ism" mania?

He means that people keep inventing and adopting ideologies, as if picking an ism were a fashion or a product you could buy to solve your problems.

Why does Penny like the idea?

She is stuck in her play, with her character trapped in a monastery. The ism idea gives her a new direction, and she decides to use it in the story.

What is Poppins's complaint about modern politics?

He says people now demand that everyone think the way they do, or they threaten violence. He contrasts that with Lincoln's line about malice toward none.

Who is Poppins?

He is a guest staying with the Sycamores. He invents things, and the family notes that he makes up stories, including a claim that he once delivered ice to the house.

我が家の楽園 · 全 27 章

すべて見る →
次のチャプター · 第 5 章would you be so kind as toTony Flirts on the Office Phone
第 1 章cash in onKirby Plans the Munitions Monopoly第 2 章when my ship comes inPoppins Becomes a Lily of the Field第 3 章like hotcakesA Day in the Sycamore House再生中 · 第 4 章the daylights out ofPoppins Meets the Sycamores第 5 章would you be so kind as toTony Flirts on the Office Phone第 6 章putty in the handsThe Kirbys Disapprove of Alice第 7 章keel overGrandpa Tells Alice About Grandma第 8 章for the sake of argumentThe IRS Visits Grandpa第 9 章got another thing comingTony Meets Alice's Family第 10 章as he pleasesAlice Explains Her Family第 11 章castles in the airTony and Alice Talk About Courage第 12 章went out with the buffaloTony Introduces Alice to His Parents第 13 章the wrong impressionThe Sycamores Prepare for the Kirbys第 14 章get mixed upThe Kirbys Come on the Wrong Night第 15 章look on the dark sideThe Kirbys Arrive on the Wrong Night第 16 章put on an actTony Brings His Parents a Night Early第 17 章If you don't mindKolenkhov Wrestles Kirby第 18 章keep your shirt onG-Men Arrest the Sycamores第 19 章you can't take it with youGrandpa Lectures Kirby in Jail第 20 章good riddanceGrandpa Calls Kirby a Failure第 21 章take the trouble toThe Sycamores Pay the Fine第 22 章go slummingAlice Tells Off the Kirbys第 23 章get over itGrandpa Sells the House第 24 章crack underRamsey Warns Kirby第 25 章hang on toTony Quits the Family Business第 26 章parting shotTony Asks Grandpa Where Alice Is第 27 章act humanKirby Admits He Failed
第 4 / 27 章 · 残り約 77 分