蝇营狗苟 驱去复还
“"Shameless and scheming, returning like driven flies."”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你等着啊
“Just you wait.”
蝇营狗苟 驱去复还
“"Shameless and scheming, returning like driven flies."”
你这个像苍蝇一样钻营 像狗一样苟且偷生的竖子
“You're a petty opportunist, buzzing around like a fly, clinging to life like a mangy dog!”
“You are a shameless, persistent parasite beneath contempt.”
In Chinese rhetoric, deploying classical literary idioms (chengyu) to insult someone inflicts a harsher blow by elevating the moral high ground and portraying the target as vulgar and unprincipled.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
scrambling shamelessly for petty gains like flies and dogs
A formal four-character chengyu used to condemn self-seeking, despicable behavior without moral integrity.
driven away only to come right back
A literary phrase describing something or someone pestilent that keeps returning despite attempts to expel them.