我那不就打个比方吗
“I was just saying.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
您不是说要吊房梁上去吗 您吊上去呗
“- Dad. - We can't lift it in. Didn't you say you'd hoist it up through the room beam? Go ahead and hoist it.”
我那 不就 打个比方 吗
“I was just saying.”
不过费霆 你别说 你可真行啊 说好一个月
“Fei Ting, I must say you're really something. You said one month,”
“Come on, I was just exaggerating for effect, don't take it so literally!”
In Chinese informal bantering, hyperbolic statements are common to express frustration, but when challenged, speakers quickly brush them off as mere figures of speech to resolve tension.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to use an analogy; to speak figuratively
Standard conversational chunk used to explain, illustrate, or excuse a rhetorical hypothetical.
isn't it just...; was merely...
A rhetorical frame used to downplay the significance or severity of an action.
Forms a rhetorical question to demand agreement and minimize the mistake.
