付给工人的时候 那个表情嘛 像割他自己肉
“you know what he looked like? It's like he was paying with his own blood.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
多赖皮的一个人 而且 他今天下午把那个钱
“How tricky Guo Fugui is! When he paid the workers this afternoon,”
付给工人的时候 那个表情 嘛 像割他自己肉
“you know what he looked like? It's like he was paying with his own blood.”
一样难受啊
“It's like he was paying with his own blood.”
“Look how stingy he is; parting with that money was agonizing for him.”
Reluctance to pay rightful wages is heavily frowned upon in Chinese blue-collar culture, where stingy bosses are routinely mocked behind their backs.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
like cutting off one's own flesh; extremely painful to part with money
A vivid colloquial metaphor used to describe extreme stinginess or reluctance to spend money.
Serves as a conversational pause to draw attention to the vivid description of the facial expression.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“He's offering more to the workers than you are.”
“Take this meat with you. Consider it your back pay.”
“Please pay us our wages.”
“Wait, Zhu, you used your paycheck for my debt.”
“You just pay our base wages,”
“Listen, - you must pay them on time. - Yes.”