我还以为你掉钱眼儿里了呢
“I thought you were obsessed with money.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
但完全不虚此行
“but it's totally worth the trip.”
我还以为 你 掉钱眼儿里了 呢
“I thought you were obsessed with money.”
我是爱钱
“I do love money,”
“You sure act like a total money-grubber!”
Traditional Chinese copper coins had square holes in the center; the idiom humorously paints an avaricious person as someone so obsessed with money that they fell right into that tiny coin hole.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
obsessed with money; money-grubbing
A vivid Beijing-flavored idiom portraying someone as fixated entirely on profit.
I thought (mistakenly)
Used to introduce a prior assumption that has now been challenged or is being framed playfully.
Softens the teasing remark and emphasizes the speaker's humorous observation.