算盘珠子打得震天响
“Their scheming is so blatant”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这两个老狐狸
“These two old foxes.”
算盘珠子打得震天响
“Their scheming is so blatant”
“that we can sense it clearly even in Jizhou.”
“Their greedy scheming is so blatant that absolutely everyone can see right through it.”
In Chinese culture, playing the abacus represents calculating personal profit or plotting self-serving schemes, often carrying a derogatory connotation when done blatantly.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
clicking the abacus beads deafeningly loud; scheming so blatantly that everyone notices
Use this colorful idiom to mock someone whose self-serving calculations or hidden agendas are laughably obvious.