I have tried google but it has failed me.
I remember a scene in a movie where a man and woman are about to be intimate and the woman has something to tell the man (that is very important) and he asks:
“Will it keep?”
I have been trying to remember what it is from and I just can’t.
Please help.
(Mods: if this makes more sense in CS, please move.)
Moved to Cafe Society.
Colibri
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I am beginning to think that the Dope can’t even help me.
I am doomed.
It sounds like it could be from Miller’s Crossing, but I’m just guessing.
Not the right one. But guesses are good. Please keep them coming (I have been trying for days now.)
Cannonball Run?
Actually, I was on a Burt Reynolds movie kick a couple weeks ago and I was surprised to hear variations of this phrase recurring frequently. I was actually thinking of making a post here asking how common it was, as I don’t really recall hearing it during the 80s.
In the first film of the series, Burt utters this when Dom DeLuise keeps bugging him while he’s trying to chat up Farah Fawcett. In the second film, a thuggish mafia boss rams Don Don’s head through a wall before asking, “Now, what was your question?” to which the victim replies, “It’ll keep, Hymie.”
Don’t know of a movie with that line, but Gary Jennings’s historical novel Aztec has its protagonist returning home after a long time away. Among his tasks on the trip was to check up on his sister-in-law in a distant village, and make sure she was OK. Once he’s home, after a long bath to get rid of the dust of the road, he goes into his bedroom and finds his beautiful wife waiting naked in bed for him. He says, “Your sister lives. There is other news, but it can wait.”
His wife replies, “Let it wait,” and welcomes him home very nicely indeed.