我们一张嘴 你们跑断腿
“We just give orders, and you run yourselves ragged.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Just those few moves— I've mastered them long ago. You've both worked hard.”
我们一张嘴 你们 跑断腿
“We just give orders, and you run yourselves ragged.”
小事一桩
“It's nothing—”
“It's easy for us to give orders, but you are the ones doing all the exhausting groundwork—thank you.”
In Chinese teamwork culture, verbally recognizing the physical toil of subordinates helps build trust and softens hierarchical distance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
just open one's mouth (to give orders lightly)
Often used to contrast the ease of speaking or issuing orders with the difficulty of executing them.
run one's legs off / exhaust oneself running errands
A vivid colloquial hyperbole describing exhausting physical effort or relentless field work.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“A pair of chopsticks and a mouth. What's wrong with the way I eat?”
“None of you is getting away with this!”
“You're just here freeloading?”
“but smooth-talking con artists are everywhere. Tell you the truth,”
“one more person eating here makes no difference.”
“I don't know who you take after.”