有一句话怎么说来着
“How does that saying go?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
人家是去大城市上学 谁还穿咱们这儿 土棉鞋啊
“She's going to study in a big city. Who would wear our local homemade cotton shoes?”
有一句话怎么说来着
“How does that saying go?”
儿行千里母担忧 你看你急的 人孩子上学
“"A mother worries when her child travels far." Look at how anxious you are. Your child won't start school”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese family debates, invoking traditional proverbs adds authoritative cultural weight to justify emotional reactions.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
How does that saying go again?
A very common natural spoken formula used when trying to retrieve a proverb, quote, or familiar idiom.
Functions here in the colloquial cluster '来着' to indicate trying to recall a past fact or phrase.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“There's a saying... How does it go?”
“What's that inspirational quote again?”
“What's that saying again? [Celebration Banquet for the Yufeng Jiangnan Project]”
“But, hey, what's the, uh… the saying?”
“how do you say it?”
“How does that line about him go again?”