那得费老了唾沫星子了
“he must've talked his head off.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
小满能把钱要回来
“for Xiaoman to get the money back,”
那 得 费老了唾沫星子了
“he must've talked his head off.”
小满 还行
“-Xiaoman. -Not bad.”
“You have no idea how much exhausting arguing and begging it took to get that money back.”
Recovering private debts in close-knit communities often relies not on lawsuits, but on persistent badgering and exhausting conversations that wear the debtor down.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wasted an enormous amount of; took a whole lot of
A vibrant northern dialect expression where '老了' serves as an intensifier meaning 'a great deal'.
spittle; saliva from talking excessively
Often combined with verbs like '费' or '溅' to depict intense, exhausting, or endless verbal argumentation.
Functions as a sentence-final particle reinforcing the completion or certainty of an extreme amount consumed.
