你跑到俺这儿 猪鼻子插葱 你学象呢
“Then you came here, like a pig with scallions, playing grand.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你以前就是马路边那烂𪨊饭馆里 刷锅剁菜的货
“Back at that greasy roadside diner, you just scrubbed pots and chopped veg.”
你跑到俺这儿 猪鼻子插葱 你学象呢
“Then you came here, like a pig with scallions, playing grand.”
你连油猪都装不了 你就是个土猪
“You can't even fake being refined. You're just a bumpkin.”
“Who do you think you are fooling? You are a nobody pretending to be important.”
Chinese colloquial culture frequently uses humorous, two-part metaphors where the first part sets up an image and the second delivers a biting punchline to demean pretentiousness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
sticking scallions in a pig's snout (to pretend to be an elephant)
A classic allegorical saying (xiehouyu) used to mock someone who is putting on airs or pretending to be something grander than they are.
imitating an elephant; putting on high-and-mighty airs
Forms the punchline of the idiom to describe absurd pretension.
Marks a rhetorical question with an ironic, mocking edge.
