等风声过去了再说
“I was planning to lie low for a while.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我本来想
“I was planning to lie low for a while.”
等 风声过去 了 再说
“I was planning to lie low for a while.”
可是我孩子的病等不了
“But my son desperately needed the medicine.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese society, avoiding direct confrontation with authority or public scrutiny by temporarily disappearing ('waiting for the wind to pass') is a classic survival tactic.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wait until the heat dies down / wait until the trouble blows over
A very common colloquial idiom used when lying low to avoid police scrutiny or public scandal.
discuss it later / talk about it then
Used to defer a decision or discussion into the indefinite future.
Marks the completion of the condition (once the heat has passed) within the conditional temporal clause.
