托你的福 还活着
“Thanks to you, I'm still alive.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你也逃出来了
“You escaped too?”
托你的福 还活着
“Thanks to you, I'm still alive.”
“Was it you who saved me on the ox cart earlier?”
“I barely made it out in one piece, no thanks to how crazy that was.”
The traditional polite formula '托福' attributes one's good fortune or survival to the listener's spiritual luck, though modern usage often takes on a dry or witty twist.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
thanks to you; lucky because of you
A polite fixed expression used when replying that things are well, but frequently applied playfully or sarcastically in tough situations.
still alive
Commonly used colloquially after surviving intense exhaustion, illness, or physical danger.