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Lucy.

It’s easy as pie.

In and out, all done and dusted.

And why don’t you do it yourself?

The last thing the guy’s expecting is a total 10 turning up to deliver the case.

It’ll blow his mind.

Come on!

What’s in it?

Sweetheart!

Don’t get paranoid on me, alright?

You trust me, don’t you?

Richard, I really do like you. But I have to take care of myself right now.

I gotta

I don’t know. I’ve got to concentrate on so many things.

I’ll be honest with you.

I can’t deliver the case myself.

I had a little falling-out with the guy.

It’s nothing major, but if it’s you, problem solved.

You walk in there, you go up to the reception, you ask for Mr. Jang to come down.

He comes down, he takes the case, you flash him your prettiest smile and bounce.

Listen, it’s the third time week, I’m showing up in the same hotel, with the same cowboy hat.

Problem solved!

Go, go.

I’ll wait for you. Go.

Lucy, honey. I–

I’ve done this a dozen times.

It’s paperwork.

It’s probably just some designs they switched so they can copy them.

That’s how it works in this country.

Even my Stetson was made here. Look.

Says so on the label, “Made in Taiwan.”

So long, cowboy with the fake Stetson.

Baby, please.

Richard, I got to go.

And seriously.

What the hell are you doing?

I’m sorry.

What the hell are you doing

I’m so sorry.

I really need your help.

Stop! Stop it! Take this off me right now!

I can’t.

Take this off me right now!

I can’t, Mr. Jang’s the only one who has the key.

All you have to do is go into the hotel and ask for him at the reception.

No! Take it off me right now!

I’m so sorry. I really have no choice.

The sooner you go in, the sooner you’ll be back out!

I can’t believe you did this to me.

Lucy.

It’s easy as pie.

if something is easy as pie, it means that it is very easy to do. Example, she thought that the exam was easy as pie. which of these idioms has the same meaning?

Listen, Joey, we definitely wanna see you for the callback on Saturday.

Excellent!

I’ll be there.

Okay.

And listen, don’t forget to bring your jazz shoes for the dance audition.

Uh, my agent said that it wasn’t a dancing part.

Joey, all the roles gotta dance a little.

But believe me, with your dance background, it’ll be a piece of cake

Three years of modern dance with Twyla Tharp?

Five years with the American Ballet Theatre?

Hey, everybody lies on their resume, okay?

In and out, all done and dusted.

This expression means to have something completely finished or ready.

Example, the deal was done and dusted.

He is saying that the job is very easy and fast to do.

And why don’t you do it yourself?

The last thing the guy’s expecting is a total 10 turning up to deliver the case.

It is common to hear people refer to other people’s appearance by using numbers, where 0 is hideous and 10 is gorgeous.

This goes out to all you people going to bed with a 10, and waking up with a 2

Ha, not me!

So, by saying this, Richard means that no one is expecting such a beautiful woman to enter the building to deliver the package.

It’ll blow his mind.

Come on!

This is a phrase that natives use all the time.

if something blows your mind, it means that it makes you feel very excited or surprised by it. Example, that movie blew my mind!

It’ll blow his mind.

Come on! It’ll blow his mind. Come on!

Here we can get a great lesson on pronunciation with phrasal verbs.

Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a particle.

Now verbs are content words, this means native stress them. particles are function words. they are de-stressed.

One thing that can make your speech sound unnatural as a non-native it’s over-stressing function words, like the particles in phrasal verbs. Let’s take this phrase “Come on” as an example.

We stress COME and destress on.

Furthermore, we connect the two. So instead of saying: come on

we say: CUH-mon

practicing this can make your speech flow more so you sound more natural.

Check out these other examples:

I need to get out of town.

You know? I think I need some peace and quiet – or whatever it is people go away for.

Okay. Give it to me. Come on!

No, no, no.

All right, fine.

Do with it what you will, I don’t care.

That’s not the secret knock.

I forget the secret knock, let me in.

Vern

Come on, you guys, open up.

Come on, up you get.

Come on.

There you go.

You alright?

What’s in it?

Sweetheart!

Don’t get paranoid on me, alright?

you trust me, don’t you?

someone who is paranoid has an irrational and obsessive distrust of others. and fears other people are plotting to harm him. Example, stop being so paranoid, nobody’s talking about you!

Richard’s avoiding Lucy’s question about what’s inside the case.

By saying this, he means that nothing harmful is inside it; it is just in her mind.

Although later in the movie, we see that Lucy was a right to be paranoid.

Richard, I really do like you. But I have to take care of myself right now.

I have to take care of myself right now.

Let’s practice some native speaking patterns with this phrase. You’ve probably notice that some words are much easier to hear, while others seem to disappear.

Like we saw before, this is because we stress the content words and de-stress the function words. The content words are these: I have to take care myself right now

All the other words are reduced.

Furthermore, we get some connected speech.

First, it is very common that we morph the phrase “have to” and it becomes hafta.

Next, the position “of” is reduced and it links to care: Kay-ruv

Now let’s put it all together: I have to take care of myself right now

I have to take care of myself right now

I don’t know. I’ve got to concentrate on so many things.

To concentrate means to focus.

I’ll be honest with you.

This is a common collocation with the word honest. Which of these are other common ways that a native might say that?

A and B are both correct.

“True” is wrong because it refers to a fact being correct, and not the honesty of a person. To collocate it with a person, we should say “I’ll be truthful” with you.

We will also often collocate these words with “let me”.

Example, let me be honest with you, you are too harsh with your employees.

I can’t deliver the case myself.

To deliver is the verb that’s used for this activity. Someone that delivers, takes products to other people’s houses or places of work. Example, Mail is delivered to our office once a day.

I had a little falling-out with the guy. It’s nothing major, but if it’s you, problem solved.

You could use the phrasal verb to fall out with someone to mean that you had a disagreement with someone.

In other words, you stopped being friends or colleagues.

Did you notice that Richard actually transformed this into a noun? A falling-out.

Example, they’ve had a falling-out and now they’re not speaking to each other.

It’s nothing major, but if it’s you, problem solved.

Something major is more important, bigger or more serious than other things. Example, Michael Jackson’s album “Thriller” was major, it became the biggest-selling album of all time.

what is another common way that native say this?

Hey, I’m really, really sorry about what happened in the cafeteria today.

It’s no big deal, you know, you do what you got to do.

No, hey, it’s not just me.

I mean, the scientists and the tour guides never sit together.

Whatever.

Ross, really, it’s no big deal

You know, you wear a white coat. I wear a blue blazer.

If that means we can’t be friends at work, so be it.

You know, I understand. You know?

You walk in there, you go up to the reception, you ask for Mr. Jang to come down.

He comes down, he takes the case, you flash him your prettiest smile and bounce.

To flash means to show something for a very short time. Example, the headlines flashed on the screen we often use the collocation we saw here:

To flash (someone) a smile.

you probably know the word bounce when referring to the motion of, for example, a basketball. However, here Richard is using this as an informal slang. In this case, to balance means to leave.

Example, it’s getting late. I’m going to bounce.

Similarly, natives will often use the phrasal verb to peace out.

Example, Just deliver the case and peace out. It’s getting late. I’m going to peace out.

Listen, it’s the third time week, I’m showing up in the same hotel, with the same cowboy hat.

Problem solved!

Go, go.

I’ll wait for you. Go.

Lucy, honey. I–

I’ve done this a dozen times.

It’s paperwork.

A dozen means twelve.

Example, Go and buy two dozen eggs.

Basically, Richard’s saying that he did this job many times before this one.

The term paperwork refers to written documents such as forms, letters or reports.

As you can see, the word in itself, means “work done on paper”.

It’s probably just some designs they switched so they can copy them.

That’s how it works in this country.

To switch is a change or exchange. So, you like theater, and you just put this fake thumb in our fries.

Yup.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say we’re with the wrong people.

Let’s just switch dates and get this party started.

What?

We don’t want to switch.

Yeah. I’m not attracted to you.

And I’m not attracted to you.

Wait a minute.

We like all the same things, but you don’t think I’m cute?

I’ve got a thing for Latin men.

I like them dumb.

Richard is making this up in order to convince Lucy to handle it, as delivering paperwork is not usually dangerous.

Even my Stetson was made here. Look.

Says so on the label, “Made in Taiwan.”

So long, cowboy with the fake Stetson.

Baby, please.

Richard, I got to go.

And seriously.

What the hell are you doing?

I’m sorry.

What the hell is a very common idiom that’s used for emphasizing a certain question.

You might also hear this phrase as “what the fuck”, but as you can imagine, it is more vulgar and rude to say. Example, what the hell happened to you last night? I waited for hours and you didn’t come.

What the hell are you doing

I’m so sorry.

I really need your help.

Stop! Stop it! Take this off me right now!

I can’t.

To take something off means to remove or get rid of something. Example, they took their clothes off and jumped in the lake.

Take this off me right now!

I can’t, Mr. Jang’s the only one who has the key.

All you have to do is go into the hotel and ask for him at the reception.

No! Take it off me right now!

Here we have another great instance of native speech to analyze. The stressed content words are the following: take right now

Everything else is de-stressed.

We get some common connected speech here, too. When we have a T between two vowels, it usually becomes an American T, which is pronounced like a soft D.

This happens even if it is between words. So, instead of saying: take it off

we say: take it off

notice of that the I sound in it is a short I sound [ih]

we say it, not it [eat]

now together: take it off me right now Take it off me right now let’s listen to Lucy say it again and we will give you a chance to repeat and mimic her.

No! Take it off me right now! No! Take it off me right now! Humans consider themselves unique, so they’ve rooted their whole theory of existence on their uniqueness.

“One” is their unit of measure.

But it’s not.

All social systems we’ve put into place are a mere sketch.

One plus one equals two.

That’s all we’ve learned.

But one plus one has never equaled two.

There are, in fact, no numbers and no letters.

We’ve codified our existence to bring it down to human size to make it comprehensible.

We’ve created a scale so that we can forget its unfathomable scale.

But if humans are not the unit of measure and the world isn’t governed by mathematical laws, what governs all that?

Film a car speeding down a road.

Speed up the image Infinitely and the car disappears.

So what proof do we have of its existence?

Time gives legitimacy to its existence.

Time is the only true unit of measure.

It gives proof to the existence of matter.

Without time, we don’t exist.

Time is unity.

Humans consider themselves unique, so they’ve rooted their whole theory of existence on their uniqueness.

The root of something refers to its cause or origin.

Listen to yourself.

You’re pathetic.

She is the root of all your problems, and therefore, mine.

Well, money is the root of all evil.

No, it’s not.

It’s just you.

Lucy uses this as a verb to say that the principles of the human race rely on their belief that they are unique.

“one” is their unit of measure.

But it’s not.

All social systems we’ve put into place are a mere sketch.

One plus one equals two. That’s all we’ve learned.

mere is a synonym for “simple”, nothing more and nothing less than what you’re saying it is. I don’t want another parking space.

I want my parking space. It’s perfect.

It’s corner spot, cutting the risk of door-dings in half.

It’s a mere 28 steps the building entrance.

the nearby tree provides shade on hot days and is also home to a delightful squirrel.

What’s baffling me is what you could have possibly put on the list. Hair too golden?

Laugh too musical?

World too much a better place for her mere presence in it?

A sketch is a rough drawing of something, that is, an incomplete and quickly made version. Example, I handed a sketch of my idea to my professor.

But one plus one has never equaled two.

There are, in fact, no numbers and no letters.

We’ve codified our distance to bring it down to human size to make it comprehensible.

To codify is to arrange something, such as rules, in a logical order the others can follow. Example, the conversation codified the rules of war.

If you bring something down you move that thing to a lower position.

Lucy uses it figuratively, meaning to make something simpler.

She is saying that by making rules we simplified our existence in order to make it understandable.

We’ve created a scale so that we can forget its unfathomable scale.

The word unfathomable is a formal way to say that something is impossible to understand. Example, for some unfathomable reason, they built the kitchen and the toilet in the same room. By creating laws based on the human scale.

we believe that we can understand things that are actually beyond our comprehension.

But if humans are not the unit of measure and the world isn’t governed by mathematical laws, what governs all that?

Film a car speeding down a road.

Speed up the image infinitely and the car disappears.

So, what proof do we have of its existence?

Time gives legitimacy to its existence.

Time is the only true unit of measure.

The noun legitimacy means authenticity. Example, most countries refuse to accept the legitimacy of the president of Venezuela.

Lucy is saying that what makes someone’s existence of real is time, not math or other human-invented rules.

It gives proof to the existence of matter.

Without time, we don’t exist.

We could say that anything that has mass and occupies space is matter: air, water, objects, humans, etc. This term is commonly used by physicists, as they study the nature of matter and forces which govern it.

How is it I can conceptualize a methodology of examining dark matter in the universe but can’t figure out how to fix the novelty squirt flower?

So, now that you’re no longer invested in string theory, what are you going pursue?

There are so many exciting areas: black holes, dark matter

Oh, Leonard was telling me about dark matter, but didn’t really understand it.

Don’t feel bad. Neither does he.

Lucy.

It’s easy as pie.

In and out, all done and dusted.

And why don’t you do it yourself?

The last thing the guy’s expecting is a total 10 turning up to deliver the case.

It’ll blow his mind.

Come on!

What’s in it?

Sweetheart!

Don’t get paranoid on me, alright?

You trust me, don’t you?

Richard, I really do like you. But I have to take care of myself right now.

I gotta

I don’t know. I’ve got to concentrate on so many things.

I’ll be honest with you.

I can’t deliver the case myself.

I had a little falling-out with the guy.

It’s nothing major, but if it’s you, problem solved.

You walk in there, you go up to the reception, you ask for Mr. Jang to come down.

He comes down, he takes the case, you flash him your prettiest smile and bounce.

Listen, it’s the third time week, I’m showing up in the same hotel, with the same cowboy hat.

Problem solved!

Go, go.

I’ll wait for you. Go.

Lucy, honey. I–

I’ve done this a dozen times.

It’s paperwork.

It’s probably just some designs they switched so they can copy them.

That’s how it works in this country.

Even my Stetson was made here. Look.

Says so on the label, “Made in Taiwan.”

So long, cowboy with the fake Stetson.

Baby, please.

Richard, I got to go.

And seriously.

What the hell are you doing?

I’m sorry.

What the hell are you doing

I’m so sorry.

I really need your help.

Stop! Stop it! Take this off me right now!

I can’t.

Take this off me right now!

I can’t, Mr. Jang’s the only one who has the key.

All you have to do is go into the hotel and ask for him at the reception.

No! Take it off me right now!

I’m so sorry. I really have no choice.

The sooner you go in, the sooner you’ll be back out!

I can’t believe you did this to me.

Humans consider themselves unique, so they’ve rooted their whole theory of existence on their uniqueness.

“One” is their unit of measure.

But it’s not.

All social systems we’ve put into place are a mere sketch.

One plus one equals two.

That’s all we’ve learned.

But one plus one has never equaled two.

There are, in fact, no numbers and no letters.

We’ve codified our existence to bring it down to human size to make it comprehensible.

We’ve created a scale so that we can forget its unfathomable scale.

But if humans are not the unit of measure and the world isn’t governed by mathematical laws, what governs all that?

Film a car speeding down a road.

Speed up the image Infinitely and the car disappears.

So what proof do we have of its existence?

Time gives legitimacy to its existence.

Time is the only true unit of measure.

It gives proof to the existence of matter.

Without time, we don’t exist.

Time is unity.