我都装头疼糊弄过去了
“I pretended to have a headache to brush them off.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Recently, several of the Empress Dowager’s faction have submitted memorials impeaching your father.”
我都 装头疼 糊弄过去 了
“I pretended to have a headache to brush them off.”
“It seems the Empress Dowager means to make an example of him.”
“Do not worry, I brushed off their petitions by feigning illness so they could not corner me.”
Throughout Chinese dynastic history, feigning illness was a standard, face-saving bureaucratic maneuver to stall decisions and avoid political traps.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to muddle through; to fob someone off; to gloss over something
A common colloquial phrase used when handling difficult questions or tasks with half-hearted evasion.
to fake a headache
A conventional idiom/tactic used to gracefully excuse oneself from uncomfortable confrontations.
Marks completed aspect, emphasizing that the evasion was already accomplished.
