现在搞他 就怕会鱼死网破
“If we mess with him now, I'm afraid we'll all be losers.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
最好搞清楚 他手里到底有什么证据
“You’d better figure out what evidence he has.”
现在 搞他 就怕 会 鱼死网破
“If we mess with him now, I'm afraid we'll all be losers.”
让他离开京海
“Let him leave Jinghai.”
“Back off for now; cornering him will drag all of us down with him.”
Reflects the strategic calculation in Chinese power struggles where cornering an opponent too aggressively can prompt them to expose shared dirty secrets, destroying everyone involved.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
mess with him; take him down; target him
Colloquial and highly versatile slang used in spoken Mandarin to denote aggressive action or scheming against someone.
mutual destruction (literally: the fish dies or the net breaks)
An idiomatic expression describing a desperate, life-or-death confrontation where both sides suffer ruin.
