Can I 'Rip' Audio Off a Clip in iMovie?

I'm a Mac and iMovie 'newbie', and am wondering if I'm able to pull the audio off of a clip that I have loaded into iMovie to use in another clip (i.e. I have a shot where I want/need the audio to lay-over another clip, but don't need the clip itself)?
If I can't do this in iMovie, does anyone know whether the capability exists in Final Cut Express?
Thanks kindly everyone!
John C

I am having a similar problem. I bought my Mac a few months ago and am just getting into using imovie. I think it's great but I really want to detach my audio from a video I just made so I can import it into Garageband but the detach audio function is gray on my edit droptab along with some other functions. Do I need to buy another version of imovie for this feature to work seeing as how I'm using the version that came standard with my computer, or am I just not doing the operation correctly?
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