我当初就说不要带她来
“I told you we shouldn't have brought her along.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你消消气
“calm down.”
我 当初 就说 不要带她来
“I told you we shouldn't have brought her along.”
你们非说她可怜
“But you insisted she was pitiful”
“I told you this would happen, and now look at the mess you've caused!”
Invoking past warnings during an argument serves to vindicate oneself and shift full moral responsibility onto peers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I said so from the start; I told you so back then
A classic everyday expression used to point out that one gave an ignored warning before a problem occurred.
bring her along
A common spoken directional collocation for bringing someone to a destination.