你们这是在公报私仇
“You are abusing your power for personal revenge!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他 他自己摔的
“He... he fell by himself.”
你们这是在 公报私仇
“You are abusing your power for personal revenge!”
公报私仇
“Abusing our power for personal revenge?”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese culture, conflating public office (gong) with private interests (si) is considered a serious breach of integrity and moral virtue.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to abuse official power to settle personal scores
A very common four-character idiom (chengyu) used when calling out unfair abuse of authority.