他要是把那消息 提前放出来 那不是砸自己脚吗
“If he reveals the news in advance, isn't it like shooting himself in the foot?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
整体搬迁计划的领导
“for the overall relocation plan for Mang Village.”
他 要是 把那消息 提前 放出来 那 不是 砸自己脚 吗
“If he reveals the news in advance, isn't it like shooting himself in the foot?”
那挺奇怪了啊
“That's strange.”
“It makes zero sense for him to do that because it would directly ruin him.”
In Chinese reasoning, invoking self-harm idioms like 'smashing one's own foot' is a standard rhetorical proof that a party could not have been the perpetrator.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
leak or release information/news
Commonly used in informal speech to describe revealing insider information or releasing news to the public.
shoot oneself in the foot; hurt one's own cause
Derived from the idiom 'ban qi shitou za ziji de jiao' (lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own toes), indicating self-destructive folly.
Forms a rhetorical negative question implying a strong affirmative assertion.
