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Come on! ........................skipper?

English translation: take up the slack

15:02 Aug 22, 2020
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / The lady pays off (1951)
English term or phrase: Come on! ........................skipper?
I can't understand what the skipper is saying after: Come on! Come on! and what the other actor is telling him.

https://youtu.be/2T6UYmzgPwY (55:35 --> 55:38)

Thanks!
Daniel Slon
Selected answer:take up the slack
Explanation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=take up the slack&oq=take up...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2020-08-22 17:18:10 GMT)
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Serhan Elmacıoğlu
Grading comment
Thanks a lot for your help!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +1pick up that slack
Yvonne Gallagher
4take up the slack
Serhan Elmacıoğlu


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
come on! ........................skipper?
pick up that slack


Explanation:
bringing in a load, eh Skipper

no, just bringing in the nets...the lousy nets we got won't hold a load

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 12:52
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 84

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Cilian O'Tuama: doesn't sound like 'pick' to me, but it's hardly important.
10 hrs
  -> maybe but pick/take are synonyms here so doesn't matter. The subtitles are very wrong in other parts so I wouldn't rely on them at all
agree  Samantha Hind: It definitely sounds like "take up.." to me, but otherwise, this sounds right, Yvonne. It's hard to tell if he says "the slack" or "that slack", but I agree with you on the rest of the dialogue in any case!
2 days 1 hr
  -> Many thanks:-) Samantha. Yes, might be "take" but a synonym anyway so not important. What is important is that the next line makes sense.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
take up the slack


Explanation:
https://www.google.com/search?q=take up the slack&oq=take up...

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Note added at 2 hrs (2020-08-22 17:18:10 GMT)
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Serhan Elmacıoğlu
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in TurkishTurkish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks a lot for your help!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Cilian O'Tuama: Yeah, switching on the subtitles could help Daniel, or put him out of work :-)
8 hrs
agree  Catharine Cellier-Smart
17 hrs
  -> Thanks a lot!
disagree  Yvonne Gallagher: Sorry but the 2nd line is completely wrong. And there are a lot of other errors in these subtitles so they are not reliable.
17 hrs
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