别人要跟我划清界限啦
“"someone wanted to draw a clear line with me"?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
委屈巴巴地跟我说
“came to me all pitiful before, saying,”
别人要跟我 划清界限 啦
“"someone wanted to draw a clear line with me"?”
“No need to be shy. I support you. Go get him!”
“He pushed me away and made me feel so rejected; what should I do now?”
Originally a political term for severing ties with disgraced individuals, modern speakers use it colloquially to express when a friend or romantic interest is emotionally distancing themselves.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
draw a clear line / distance oneself from someone
A very common idiom used both in serious political/social contexts and casual romantic or social estrangements.
Softens the tone of complaint, lending a slightly cute, exaggerated, or petulant flavor to the statement.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Drawing a line with me so soon?”
“you want to cut ties with me?”
“Not in a hurry to distance yourself from me now?”
“just because it's for my own good,”
“If I draw a line with her at this time”
“It sounds as if you were trying to distance yourself from us.”