家不长里不短的事情
“some trivial matters.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我们基层民警 就是都知道一些
“We grass-roots police officers do know”
家不长里不短 的事情
“some trivial matters.”
聊得好
“If we can have a good chat,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In China, community police officers spend substantial time mediating minor neighborly friction, marital strife, and mundane local gossip.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
trivial neighborhood gossip or routine domestic affairs
A spoken variation of the idiom 家长里短, used to depict mundane, petty domestic disputes.