不是 媳妇 你怎么还胳膊肘往外拐呢
“Hey, honey. Why are you siding with her?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Good. Leave your wallet. You can go. Off you go.”
不是 媳妇 你 怎么还 胳膊肘往外拐 呢
“Hey, honey. Why are you siding with her?”
你们两个真的是 我唯二允许如此无视我的人
“Oh my. You two are the only people I let treat me like this.”
“You are supposed to have my back, not team up against me!”
Chinese domestic dynamics strongly expect family members to present a united front to outsiders; siding with others is colloquially framed as 'turning one's elbow outward'.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
side with an outsider against one's own family
A highly frequent Chinese idiom used when someone supports an outsider rather than their own inner circle.
Softens the accusation into a gentle, mildly perplexed rhetorical query.