谁家钱也不是大风刮来的
“Money doesn't grow on trees,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
没问题
“No problem.”
谁家 钱 也不是 大风刮来的
“Money doesn't grow on trees,”
是吧
“right?”
“Money doesn't grow on trees, so we need to be sensible and not get ripped off.”
Chinese culture places immense emphasis on thrift and respecting hard-earned resources; claiming money 'was blown in by wind' is the prototypical rebuke against financial recklessness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
blown in by the wind (idiomatic for easy/free money)
Almost always used in the negative ('钱不是大风刮来的') as the exact Chinese equivalent to 'money doesn't grow on trees'.
anyone's money
A rhetorical way to universalize a financial principle to all households.
Completes the 'shi...de' construction emphasizing the origin and condition of how the money was acquired.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“as long as our family had a little money,”
“Where exactly did your money come from?”
“(Who knows where the money went?) (They should've paid me. I'd do a better job than them.)”
“I'm the one who's kept this family poor, okay?”
“ever since you married into our family, see?”
“that money wasn't for me alone. It was for us.”