他就鼻子不是鼻子 眼睛不是眼睛的
“When I brought it up, he started catching an attitude!”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我在乎的是他的态度 我刚跟他提
“It's about his attitude. When I brought it up,”
他就 鼻子不是鼻子 眼睛不是眼睛 的
“When I brought it up, he started catching an attitude!”
“How was I catching an attitude? What dirty looks?”
“He immediately got pissed off and gave me an awful attitude.”
In Chinese interpersonal conflicts, especially within close relationships, a poor emotional demeanor ('attitude') is often seen as a far greater offense than the actual problem being discussed.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
giving someone a sour face / wearing a hostile expression
A highly idiomatic colloquial expression describing someone whose face is contorted with anger, displeasure, or disdain.
Concludes the descriptive idiomatic predicate, reinforcing the speaker's personal observation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How was I catching an attitude? What dirty looks?”
“His eyes and nose”
“This is way too blurry. I can't make out the face at all.”
“why are you all so petty?”
“Eyes, nose, mouth, the whole package. Don't you want to be an idol?”
“But the man spoke with such detail that it was hard to tell truth from lies.”