这阵数钱数得指头都转筋了
“- Even if it pierces my heart... - I'd be rich.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
这要是早把羊养起来
“If we'd raised sheep sooner,”
这阵 数钱 数得指头都转筋了
“- Even if it pierces my heart... - I'd be rich.”
想不到呀 咱家这些羊和咱来弟一样
“- Blood burning like fire... - Who knew? - Burning like fire... - Our sheep are like Laidi.”
“We are making so much cash that my fingers hurt from counting it all!”
Saying your fingers cramp from counting cash is a traditional humorous idiom reflecting the rural dream of tangible, hard-cash prosperity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to get a muscle cramp / spasm
A colloquial northern Chinese term for cramping, often used humorously to exaggerate fatigue from repetitive actions.
counting money to the point that...
A classic hyperbolic structure to describe striking it rich.
Indicates a new state of affairs or realized completion, reinforcing the hyperbolic result.
