在工作上还脚踏两只船
“At work, she's juggling two jobs at once.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这人有多了不起
“How impressive can she be?”
在工作 上还 脚踏两只船
“At work, she's juggling two jobs at once.”
人家靠山硬呗
“Well, she's got powerful backing.”
“They are totally unethical and playing both sides for personal gain.”
Chinese workplace culture highly values loyalty; doing outside work or hedging between competing entities is severely frowned upon and viewed as opportunistic betrayal.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to have a foot in two boats; to double-dip or hedge bets
A common idiom often used for cheating in romance, but here applied to having divided loyalties or moonlighting dishonestly at work.