你把人弄出个好歹来 警察一查 查到你这儿怎么办
“If you really did something to him, the police would soon find you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You're an adult. Can't you use your brain before you make decisions?”
你把人弄出个 好歹 来 警察一查 查到 你这儿 怎么办
“If you really did something to him, the police would soon find you.”
我没想那么多
“I didn't think that much.”
“You were reckless and almost got caught by the cops; what were you thinking?”
The term '好歹' literally means 'good or bad' but colloquially serves as a face-saving or ominous euphemism for severe injury, disability, or death.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
cause serious harm; trigger a mishap or casualty
Colloquial idiom often functioning as a euphemism for serious injury, medical emergency, or fatal accident caused by reckless action.
as soon as (they) investigate
The pattern '一 + verb' denotes an action that immediately triggers a subsequent consequence.
what will you do; how to handle it
Used here as a rhetorical scolding rather than a genuine request for a solution.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“if it catches a bad guy's eye and he has evil intentions, what would you do?”
“Are you really grabbing him from the police?”
“At least come say hello.”
“Okay, okay, I'll go check right now.”
“Okay. Okay. Officer, we'll cooperate.”
“and expose whoever has been scheming behind the scenes.”