也不怕栽跟头
“aren't you afraid of taking a fall?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也不怕栽跟头
“aren't you afraid of taking a fall?”
“You desired nothing more than to become the Red-Faced Guardian.”
“You are aiming way too high for your station and you are bound to fail miserably.”
Chinese social philosophy cautions heavily against mismatching ambition with capacity, often using metaphors of ill-fitting shoes or tumbling.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to suffer a setback; to take a fall
An extremely common colloquial idiom for failing badly due to arrogance or poor judgment.
aren't you even afraid of
Rhetorical question opener used to criticize someone's reckless or presumptuous behavior.