岂不是家丑都外扬了 可是
“wouldn't we just be airing our dirty laundry? But”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“This is our own family's business. If we let outsiders interfere,”
岂不是 家丑 都外扬了 可是
“wouldn't we just be airing our dirty laundry? But”
我也没觉得
“I don't see this”
“We cannot let outsiders know about this embarrassing problem.”
A core traditional Chinese moral principle where family conflicts must remain confidential to preserve collective face and dignity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
washing dirty linen in public; airing family scandals to outsiders
A very common four-character idiom used when advising against revealing private familial conflicts.
wouldn't it be; wouldn't that mean
Used in rhetorical questions to emphasize an undesirable or obvious logical outcome.
Marks a change of state or realized consequence in the hypothetical scenario.
