得让你帮我毁尸灭迹
“to need you to get rid of the evidence?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我得干什么坏事
“Also, what kind of trouble would I be in”
得 让你帮 我 毁尸灭迹
“to need you to get rid of the evidence?”
给点钞机加水降温
“Pouring water to cool down the money counter.”
“I'd need you as my partner in crime for something completely absurd and outrageous.”
Native Chinese speakers frequently appropriate heavy, dramatic four-character idioms from crime or historical dramas into intimate relationships to generate humor through intentional overstatement.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to destroy a corpse and eliminate all traces of evidence
A traditional four-character idiom (chengyu) from crime and legal contexts, frequently used jokingly in daily life to mean hiding evidence or cover-ups.
would have to make (someone do something)
Expresses necessity or conditional requirement in informal spoken Chinese.
