别提了 真是见了鬼了今天
“Don't even get me started. It's like I've seen a ghost today.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
不是 怎么回事啊
“No, what happened?”
别提了 真是 见了鬼了 今天
“Don't even get me started. It's like I've seen a ghost today.”
“Why did the jinx show up at my door? What bad luck.”
“Don't even get me started; today has been an absolute cursed nightmare.”
Chinese speakers frequently use ghost and luck-related expressions in everyday speech not out of literal religious belief, but as colorful hyperbole for bad luck or annoyance.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
don't even mention it / don't get me started
A very common conversational opener used when someone asks how things are going and you want to signal that something went terribly wrong.
utterly bizarre / cursed / what the heck
Colloquial idiom used to complain about inexplicable bad luck or absurdly frustrating situations.
Used in fixed colloquial exclamations to heighten emotional intensity and finality.
