MANICURE= The act of clipping and embellishing your nails and fingers. RIGHT IN= Right now, at this very moment. MISUNDERSTANDING= Something that wasn't understood correctly, so you got the wrong meaning or impression. SLIGHT= Very little, in a very small degree. PILLOW= A soft piece you use to rest your head on while you're sleeping. If you fix the beds, you make the beds (tidy them up again). (also spelled COZ in BrE and CUZ in AmE).įIX= repair make right.

Of course, Groucho is using this sentence here in a humoristic way.ĬAUSE= (coll.) Because. In Dante's book, at the entrance of Hell (the Inferno) there was a script carved in the stone reading ' Ye who enter here, leave all hope behind'. This sentence comes from Dante's Inferno. LEAVE ALL HOPE BEHIND= A dramatic line which means, you're entering a terrible place and you'll never get out again. MAKE UP YOUR ROOM= Clean and tidy up your room, make your bed, etc. If a person can't hear and can't speak (permanently) is called 'deaf and dumb', always in that order. STEWARD= /st u:ə*d/a waiter or attendant on a ship or plane.ĭUMB= /dʌm/ who can't speak. I've been waiting all afternoon for you stewards. Tell Aunt Minnie to send up a bigger room, too, will ya? It's the only place that isn't being occupied. This boat will be in New York before you can get to that phone. Use the phone?! I'll lay ya even money you can't get in the room! If she isn't in here, you can probably find somebody just as good.

Well, you can come in and prowl around if you wanna. Say, is it my imagination or is it getting crowded in here? The engineer's right over there in the corner. You know, I had a premonition you were going to show up. You couldn't get any bouillon in here unless they brought it in through a keyhole.

I always visualized myself sitting in a steamer chair with a steward bringing me bouillon. This isn't the way I pictured an ocean voyage. No, come on in! I hadn't planned on a manicure, but I think on a journey like this, you ought to have every convenience you can get. You know, if it wasn't for Gottlieb, I wouldn't have got this room? Just hold him there a second. You know he does better asleep than I do awake? I said the girls had to work fast - not your friend. Hey, there's a slight misunderstanding here. Say, I'd like two pillows on that bed there, huh? But you've gotta work fast 'cause you've gotta get out in ten minutes. Come on in, girls, and leave all hope behind. I can't tell until they get in the room. If that steward is deaf and dumb, he'll never know you're in here.

Marx brothers a night at the opera