Couldn't you talk him into letting us work for half salary?
5 seconds sound clip from the White Christmas (1954) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:49:28 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- We ate, and then he ate. We slept, then he slept.
- Yeah, then he woke up and nobody slept for 48 hours.
- Hi, girls. You know what? I think Bob and I could give you some pointers on that Sister number.
- Isn't this awful? It's like taking money under false pretenses.
- Couldn't you talk him into letting us work for half salary?
- Not Light Horse Harry. Advance, advance, never retreat. He's advancing into bankruptcy.
- He sunk everything, his pension, his life savings, everything in remodeling this place!
- It used to be a gristmill and a barn. Now, it's a Tyrolean haunted house.
- There ought to be something we can do about it.
- Well, there is. We're going to New York in the morning.
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