I've taken the liberty of asking Eric to stay for Christmas dinner.
4 seconds sound clip from the Barbie in the Nutcracker movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:08:24.025 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Aunt Elizabeth, have you seen my... Nutcracker?
- Look who I ran into while I was taking my morning stroll.
- Uncle Drosselmayer, Clara, Tommy, this is Eric. The son of a dear friend of mine.
- I'm very happy to... meet you.
- Such familiarity. In my day we would never have...
- I've taken the liberty of asking Eric to stay for Christmas dinner.
- Hm. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to have the young man stay for supper.
- But what about the presents?
- I couldn't say no to the king.
- So, if Clara hadn't been brave, she never would have found out she was a princess.
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