bust the take

[LIV]

Вот контекст: (суть ясна, хотелось бы знать это выражение по русски)

While you’re in the interview, you’re in the driver’s seat. Don’t finish a thought that is starting to head south. Instead, “bust the take” (stop talking, or talk directly to the interviewer), and then start again with the clean line you want to deliver.

[mahavishnu]

1. head south = to go bad/wrong
2. bust a take = take a shot, a stab, a try, думаю, "брать быка за рога"
3. clean line = start again, usually with newfound clarity

[Тruth Seeker]

"Here 'bust the take' means to somehow destroy the take (the piece of filmed interview) so they (the television or radio crew) cannot use it. I guess this could be simply stopping talking, which looks silly on camera so won't be used. Instead they will begin a new take and you have chance to say what you really meant to say in the first take. ('Going south' means going badly and getting worse.)

The advice is meant to stop a person being interviewed saying something stupid. It is fairly common that people do say more than they mean because interviewers are trained to break the conventions of normal conversation. A simple example is the 'uncomfortable silence' - the interviewer says nothing and a naive interviewee (the person being interviewed) feels the need to say something to fill the gap. This is where they say a foolish thing."
http://www.englishforums.com/English/BustTheTake/bnjhl/Post.htm

[D-50]

TM,
Вот это похоже на правду.
У музыкантов в студии, кстати, тоже каждый дубль записи трека называется "take"

[mahavishnu]

вот так будет лучше: to "bust the take" - film jargon, "take" in this case meaning a filmed scene between actors. you'll hear directors saying to the film crew something like, "take two," or "let's do this take again." and to "bust" a "take" would mean, i think, to cancel or abandon it. so if the previous idiom is in fact film jargon, then to "deliver a clean line" is furthering the analogy, the "line" being an actor's line of dialog, and "delivering" it "cleanly" meaning to speak the line well, without errors.