咱俩是一根绳上的蚂蚱
“We are on the same boat.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Once I get the money together, I'll pay you back in full, okay?”
咱俩是 一根绳上的蚂蚱
“We are on the same boat.”
我拿走五百万
“I'll take 5 million.”
“We sink or swim together, so don't try to screw me over.”
The idiom '一根绳上的蚂蚱' is standard colloquial parlance in Chinese crime fiction to remind accomplices that betrayal guarantees mutual downfall.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
grasshoppers tied to the same cord; in the same boat with tied fates
A popular Chinese idiom describing people whose interests and survival are irrevocably bound together, often in illicit situations.
the two of us
An inclusive northern Chinese oral pronoun used to pull the listener into an intimate or shared partnership.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“We're on the same side.”
“We are in the same boat.”
“We're in the same boat.”
“kill two birds with one stone and get rid of him altogether.”
“♪ Still unchanged ♪ We're in the same boat.”
“We're in the same boat to begin with.”
“the two of us were tied together.”
“♪ We met in the crowd ♪ We're in the same boat to begin with. ♪ There's no mistake in this life ♪ I'll stand by you and help you through this to the very end.”