还不得把你俩活吞了
“they would eat you two alive.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
如果让太爷那一身回来 让那两口子看见了
“if he came back like that and the couple saw him,”
还不 得把 你俩 活吞了
“they would eat you two alive.”
我就用小月给我的体己钱 还有我卖 武汉船票的钱
“So I used the private savings Xiaoyue gave me, the money from selling the ferry tickets to Wuhan,”
“You two would have been torn to shreds by that couple if they found out; you owe me for saving your skin.”
Vivid physical idioms like 'swallowing someone alive' are frequently employed in dramatic spoken Chinese to stress fierce interpersonal conflict and domestic intolerance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
swallow alive; tear to pieces without mercy
An exaggerated, highly vivid idiom used colloquially to describe someone reacting with extreme fury or cruelty.
would certainly; wouldn't it inevitably
A rhetorical construction used in spoken Chinese to introduce an extreme, inevitable consequence.
Conveys the definitive, completed consequence imagined in the rhetorical question.
