什么照片？我不知道啊 少跟我装蒜
“Director Li, what photo? I have no idea. Stop pretending.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
李场长
“Director Li, what photo? I have no idea.”
什么 照片？ 我不知道 啊 少跟我 装蒜
“Director Li, what photo? I have no idea. Stop pretending.”
这张照片就在我家门口放着
“That photo was left right at my doorstep.”
“You know full well what photo I'm talking about, so cut the act.”
The idiom '装蒜' (playing garlic/pretending) reflects Chinese conversational directness during confrontations when social decorum is dropped.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to play dumb or pretend to be innocent
A very common colloquial expression used when confronting someone who is pretending not to know the truth.
don't you dare ... with me / cut the ...
Used in heated confrontations to order someone to drop an attitude or excuse.
Conveys an exaggerated tone of innocence or defensive surprise.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What photo? Stop playing dumb. You know what I mean.”
“I just pretended not to know.”
“I have no idea either. Don't play dumb.”