你当官当惯了 你谁都想安排是吧
“You are used to being an official. So you want to arrange for anyone you want?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还什么新加坡上大学去 亏你想得出来
“You even asked to go to university in Singapore. How could you have such an idea?”
你 当官当惯了 你 谁都想安排 是吧
“You are used to being an official. So you want to arrange for anyone you want?”
你给我打住
“Stop.”
“Stop treating your family like subordinates you can boss around; you have no right to control our lives.”
In Chinese society, bringing the autocratic demeanor of public office into private family relationships is widely resented and mocked.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
used to acting like a boss / accustomed to being an official
A biting colloquial idiom used to criticize someone whose workplace authority makes them overly bossy in private life.
to arrange / to dictate someone's life
Often used in domestic arguments to denote controlling or micro-managing another person's decisions.
Converts the rhetorical assertion into a biting, sarcastic challenge seeking grudging admission.
