干活拿钱 天经地义
“You did the work. You earned it.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I don't think you need to worry about saving face. Go get your money.”
干活拿钱 天经地义
“You did the work. You earned it.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
While social etiquette often discourages aggressively asking for money to avoid embarrassment, this idiom is invoked to justify demanding rightful compensation without feeling shameful.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
do the work, get the pay
A colloquial four-character phrase expressing the fundamental transaction of labor for compensation.
perfectly justified / universal truth / self-evident
An idiom (chengyu) used to declare that an action or moral principle is universally accepted and non-negotiable.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“As long as he got paid, he'd do anything.”
“I'm paying out of my own pocket.”
“he'll come pay for service here every day.”
“It's paid by me. So they're mine. It's my hard-earned money.”
“Right, I'll take the money. Okay. Sir,”
“Give me the money. What?”