- Better than being put in the choky.
- Choky?
- Yeah, the choky. It's a tall, narrow hole in the wall behind a door. You have to stand in a drippy pipe with jagged edges. And the walls have broken glass and nails sticking out.
13 seconds sound clip from the Matilda (1996) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:25:24.673 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- And Julius Rottwinkle ate two M and M's during her lesson.
- After being thrown out the window? Of course he wasn't okay. He lived, if that's what you mean.
- The Trunchbull used to be in the Olympics. Shot put, javelin, hammer throw.
- The hammer throw is her specialty.
- So she does this all the time?
- Better than being put in the choky.
- Choky?
- Get inside, you festering ball of puss!
- I've been in twice. Sometimes she leaves you in there all day.
- Didn't you tell your parents?
- They didn't believe me. I mean, would your parents believe it?
- Sixty lines after school: I must obey Miss Trunchbull.
- No.
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