那如果真有事的话 那警察也不是吃干饭的
“If there really is something wrong, the police wouldn't just sit around doing nothing.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那如 果真有 事 的话 那警察 也不是 吃干饭的
“If there really is something wrong, the police wouldn't just sit around doing nothing.”
别跟我提警察 遇到一个胡子都没长齐的小孩
“Don't mention the police to me. I met a kid who barely has facial hair.”
“Calm down, if things actually go wrong, the police will handle it.”
Derived from the traditional notion that someone who eats staple grain without working is a freeloader; denying it asserts professional capability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
not useless; not there just to freeload; fully competent
A common colloquial idiom used to defend someone's competence or assert that people are capable of doing their jobs.
if something really happens
Used as a conditional phrase when contemplating a worst-case scenario in informal conversation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It's easy for us police to find out.”
“If I weren't a policeman, would I have a chance?”
“If that's true, what do we need police for?”
“Something like this is nothing for us.”