On the witness stand, the judge tried to pump me.
5 seconds sound clip from the Symphony In Slang (Tex Avery, 1951) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:03:23 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- At dinner, Mary let her hair down, and ate like a horse.
- By then, my money was runnin' out on me. So I writes a check. It bounced.
- Brother, I was really in a pickle.
- The proprietor drew a gun on me. But I gave him the slip, and hid in the foothills.
- In no time, the law was on my heels.
- On the witness stand, the judge tried to pump me.
- But it seemed that every time I opened my mouth, I put my foot in it.
- So he sent me up the river to do a stretch in the jug.
- I was up against it, and felt myself going to pot.
- But I raised a big stink, and they finally let me talk to an undercover man.
- After going through a lot of red tape, he sprung me.
[...]