那不砸人饭碗吗
“Isn't that taking away their livelihood?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“but he's even driving the workers out.”
那不 砸人饭碗 吗
“Isn't that taking away their livelihood?”
你让人怎么活呀
“How are they supposed to survive?”
“You are ruthlessly ruining those people's livelihoods.”
In Chinese culture, a rice bowl represents essential livelihood, and depriving someone of it is considered an ultimate act of moral and social cruelty.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
smash someone's rice bowl; take away someone's livelihood
An essential idiom used when an action causes someone to lose their job or basic source of income.
Converts the statement into a rhetorical question, intensifying moral outrage.