勉强能跟我打个平手
“can barely tie with me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
也就是你那师兄
“Only your senior”
勉强 能跟我 打个平手
“can barely tie with me.”
老严
“Yan.”
“Even at his best, he's barely on my level.”
Among close peers or martial arts/craft lineages (shixiong/shidi dynamics), asserting slight superiority in banter is a common way to display confidence and camaraderie.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to tie / to fight to a draw
Use this colloquial idiom to describe any contest, competition, or game that ends without a clear winner.
barely / with difficulty
Placed before a verb to emphasize that an outcome was achieved with difficulty or just scraped by.