As easy as a man like you ride my flick.

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This is part of the dialogue taken from the movie "Foreign Intrigue" (1956):

Ralph Brown: What's like to have so many millions?
Robert Mitchum: It's not really as easy as a man like you ride my flick.

Then the two men get into a sports blue car and leave for Nice. Mitchum drives. The millionaire is not Mitchum, but one of his friends.
Perhaps the last word is not "flick" and refers to the car, but the word sounds like flick, fick, phick... or very similar. I must say that the soundtrack is old and the dialogue is not very clear.
Any suggestions about the meaning of Mitchum's sentence.

GPY · Accepted Answer

The second sentence does not appear to make any sense or even be grammatical as you have written it. The first sentence should be "What's it like to have so many millions?"

I may not have any good suggestions anyway, but I wonder if you could just double-check the second sentence for any typos, such as small words that you may have missed out.

Gamboler · Answer

Thanks, GPY. I double-checked the second sentence and I think that the last word it is more like fick, not flick.
It is not easy for me to be completely sure of the correctness of the last two words. That's why I uploaded the sentence (3 seconds) to my free sound web. The link is: https://soundcloud.com/carlos-b-rgamo-s-nchez/excerpt

Would you be so kind to listen to this short record? Are the last words ride and fick? If so, what's the meaning of Mitchum's answer? Thanks in advance.

Gamboler · Answer

By the way: I tried to record the voices using the top button of this form but, unluckily, it doesn't work in my computer.

Fivejedjon · Answer

Well, it's not as easy as men like you or I might think.

Gamboler · Answer

Thanks a lot, fivejedjon.

Anonymous · Answer

Hi 5jj,

Is "you or I" a subject in the you or I might think clause?

As easy as a man like you ride my flick.

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