给他回个电话不就得了
“just call him back.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你想听他说什么
“If there's something you want to hear from him,”
给他 回个电话 不就得了
“just call him back.”
电话烫手啊
“Is the phone burning your hand?”
“Just call him back and be done with it—stop making such a big deal out of it.”
In informal Chinese discourse, friends or close coworkers readily cut through hesitation with colloquial rhetorical patterns like '不就……得了' to push for decisive action.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to return a phone call
The insertion of the numeral classifier softens the request or describes a quick, simple action.
wouldn't that settle it?; and that's that
A rhetorical spoken idiom used to suggest that a problem has an easy, obvious resolution.
Combined with 得 to form the fixed idiom 得了, expressing finality and resolution.