那都是猴年马月的事了
“That was ages ago!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
县里的干部 对我有意见的
“County cadres hold grudges against me.”
那都是 猴年马月 的事了
“That was ages ago!”
现在县里的干部们
“Now, the vast majority of the cadres”
“That was eons ago, so forget about it; nobody cares anymore.”
The idiom combines the monkey year and horse month to describe an impossibly remote or distant time horizon, widely used colloquially to brush off past grievances.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
an indefinite, distant past or future; donkey's years; when pigs fly
Use this colloquial idiom to emphasize that an event took place eons ago or will likely never happen.
Marks a change of status or establishes a finalized situation, emphasizing that the matter belongs firmly in the past.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“it'd probably be years later.”
“in such a densely populated community. Why don't we narrow down the search area?”
“you probably won't be able to find anything.”
“I'll ever get married.”
“This will take forever.”
“It will take forever to save up for it.”