你不会自掏腰包吧
“Are you paying out of your own pocket?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“I thought the overtime pay wasn't approved.”
你 不会 自掏腰包 吧
“Are you paying out of your own pocket?”
我上一次的奖金
“My bonus from last time”
“Don't tell me you're actually covering this cost yourself!”
Colleagues frequently bond over shared labor frustrations, cautioning each other against sacrificing personal financial interests for company duties.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to pay out of one's own pocket
An idiomatic expression used when someone spends their own money on shared or official expenses.
you wouldn't be... would you?
A rhetorical grammatical frame used to express suspicion or disbelief about someone's unexpected action.
Softens the question while indicating the speaker strongly suspects their guess is true.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“offered to pay out of pocket”
“You know I don't have money.”
“I seldom spend money.”
“You have no intention of paying even a penny,”
“you'll have to bear it yourself.”
“you owe yourself an apology, too?”