你也好意思跟我说半斤八两
“You've got some nerve saying that to me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“What do you mean, "in the same boat"?”
你 也好 意思 跟 我说 半斤八两
“You've got some nerve saying that to me.”
我可是杉立方项目组的组长 你跟我
“I was the leader of the Shanlifang project team. We're...”
“You are not on my level, so stop acting like we are equals.”
In hierarchical Chinese workplaces, leveling down a team leader to an equal footing with ordinary staff threatens professional face (mianzi) and provokes sharp defensive backlash.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
having the nerve to / having the audacity to
Frequently used rhetorically with '也' (ye) or '怎么' (zenme) to shame someone for shameless behavior.
six of one and half a dozen of the other / cut from the same cloth
An idiomatic chengyu used to describe two people or things as being equally bad or undistinguished.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I can't say for sure either.”
“If you don't like how I put it, just ignore it.”
“Good! Well said!”
“Let me finish, okay?”
“Other than saying some empty nice words,”
“I can't say for sure.”