你扯胳膊我扯你腿的了
“and Meng Dehai.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你和高启强 孟德海 就不要再
“I suggest you stop struggling with Gao Qiqiang”
你扯胳膊我扯你腿的了
“and Meng Dehai.”
船翻了 谁都跑不了
“If the boat capsized, no one would escape.”
“Stop dragging each other down before we all sink together.”
When facing a crisis, members of a faction are expected to recognize their collective vulnerability rather than engage in self-destructive internal fighting.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
tugging at arms and legs / pulling each other down / petty infighting
A vivid colloquial idiom describing people sabotaging and holding one another back in a conflict.
Functions with the preceding negative imperative context to urge an immediate cessation of the behavior.