现在呢 煮熟的鸭子 让人家捞走了
“Now, the meat cooked in our kitchen was in someone else's stomach.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Building and construction are always the construction group's jobs.”
现在呢 煮熟的鸭子 让 人家 捞 走了
“Now, the meat cooked in our kitchen was in someone else's stomach.”
买卖不能这么做呀
“It's not how we do business.”
“We did all the hard work, and they stole our guaranteed profit right out from under us.”
In Chinese culture, a 'cooked duck' symbolizes an absolute certainty; losing it implies severe incompetence, bad luck, or predatory competition.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a cooked duck; a sure thing or guaranteed victory
Comes from the idiom '煮熟的鸭子飞了' (a cooked duck flies away), denoting a sure success lost at the last moment.
was scooped away by others
A colloquial way to describe opportunistic competitors snatching away benefits.
Highlights the sudden, disappointing contrast between past effort and the present bad outcome.
Marks the completion of an unfortunate event.
