到饭口不留你吃饭
“If I don't invite you to stay for a meal,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
买卖不成情义在
“Business may fail, but friendship remains.”
到饭口不留 你吃 饭
“If I don't invite you to stay for a meal,”
传出去
“and word gets out,”
“It would make me look terribly impolite and stingy if I let you leave hungry right now.”
Letting a guest or business associate leave without an invitation to eat around mealtime can be seen as stingy or lacking basic hospitality (li shu).
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
mealtime
A colloquial northern term referring specifically to typical times when people sit down to eat.
keep someone for a meal
Commonly used by hosts to insist guests stay to dine together out of courtesy.