吃相难看 我想请问你
“Too ugly? Let me ask you,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“It's because the way you go about things is just too ugly.”
吃相难看 我想请问你
“Too ugly? Let me ask you,”
吃相好
“can being "proper"”
“How dare you call me greedy! Explain yourself right now.”
Originally referring to table etiquette, '吃相' has evolved in modern Chinese culture into a moral metaphor for whether one behaves honorably and with restraint when dividing assets, power, or money.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
ugly conduct / greedy behavior / lacking grace in pursuing interests
A popular contemporary idiom used figuratively to criticize someone who pursues personal gain in an unseemly, shameless, or uncouth manner.
I would like to ask you
While formally polite, in spoken arguments this phrase serves as a sharp rhetorical launchpad to challenge someone.
