省得嫌我麻烦 碍手碍脚
“before you start finding me troublesome.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“and leave you young people more time and space”
省得 嫌我 麻烦 碍手碍脚
“before you start finding me troublesome.”
董事长好
“Chairman Liao.”
“I'll make myself scarce so you two have privacy and I don't feel like a third wheel.”
Elders often use self-deprecating humor about being in the way to gracefully grant privacy and romantic space to younger family members.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
so as to avoid; lest
Used to introduce an undesirable situation that one's current action is meant to prevent.
to be in the way; to be an obstacle or nuisance
Colloquial four-character idiom frequently used self-deprecatingly when excusing oneself from an awkward social situation.