你狗嘴里吐不出象牙
“You never have anything nice to say.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
一辈子只能听好话
“You only want to hear flattery.”
你 狗嘴里吐不出象牙
“You never have anything nice to say.”
至于吗 这么多年了 不见面心里想
“Is this really necessary? It's been so many years. You miss each other when apart,”
“You never have anything decent or kind to say, so shut your mouth.”
In northern Chinese culture, longstanding peers or work rivals frequently exchange harsh idioms without necessarily severing social ties; such cutting banter forms part of their accustomed relational dynamic.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
A filthy mouth cannot speak decent language / A dog's mouth emits no ivory
A ubiquitous Chinese idiom used to retort when someone makes a rude, tactless, or spiteful comment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“You can't say anything nice?”
“A filthy mouth cannot utter... Enough.”
“From a filthy mouth comes no decent speech. You got me wrong.”