烦死了 乌鸦嘴
“don't jinx me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
呸呸呸
“Knock it off,”
烦死了 乌鸦嘴
“don't jinx me.”
哪儿有那么夸张
“It's not that dramatic.”
“Don't jinx this for me, stop saying such unlucky things!”
In Chinese folk culture, mentioning negative outcomes is believed to risk manifesting them, making people reprimand the speaker as a 'crow's mouth'.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
so annoying / extremely irritating
A highly common spoken idiom used to vent intense frustration or annoyance.
jinx / harbinger of bad luck
Used playfully or irritably toward someone whose negative prediction might bring bad luck.
Functions as an intensifying complement marker in 烦死了 indicating an extreme degree.