总不能让我和我媳妇睡大街吧
“Do you expect us to sleep on the street?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“My unit is gone. Where do you expect me to go?”
总不能 让我和我媳妇 睡大街 吧
“Do you expect us to sleep on the street?”
“Where you sleep is none of my concern. You can't sleep in the office!”
“You have a moral duty to solve my housing problem instead of ruthlessly kicking us out.”
In state-owned enterprise culture, workers historically expected their work unit (danwei) or leadership to provide basic life necessities like housing, leading to moral appeals when displaced.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
surely cannot, it's out of the question that
Used at the start of a clause to assert that a certain extreme scenario is unreasonable or unacceptable.
sleep on the street, become homeless
A colorful colloquial expression used hyperbolically to denote absolute destitution or lacking a roof.
Softens the rhetorical confrontation slightly while soliciting moral agreement or backing the listener into a corner.
