那我不就前功尽弃了？
“I will be busted.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
我还有三万的尾款没收 万一有人看到 告诉警察
“Someone still owes me 30,000 yuan. If someone tells the police,”
那我不就 前功尽弃 了？
“I will be busted.”
“I refuse to walk away empty-handed after doing all this dirty work.”
In illicit or informal jobs, holding out for the final payment ('尾款') often conflicts with survival instincts when police detection becomes imminent.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
all previous efforts wasted; completely undone
A four-character idiom (chengyu) used when progress is completely wiped out near completion.
wouldn't that make me... / wouldn't that result in...
A frequent rhetorical framework used to resist an unfavorable condition or outcome.
Marks an anticipated change of state within a hypothetical rhetorical construction.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and all my previous work would have been for nothing.”
“or it'll all be for nothing.”
“All your efforts will be for nothing.”