赖哥说 她是烫手山芋
“Lai said she was a hot potato.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
手上拿着赖哥的把柄
“She had something on Lai.”
赖哥说 她是 烫手山芋
“Lai said she was a hot potato.”
要尽快处理掉
“She needed to be dealt with ASAP.”
“He saw her as a massive threat to his safety and decided she had to be eliminated.”
Chinese frequently uses food imagery for abstract predicaments; a freshly roasted sweet potato ('shanyu') is famously too hot to hold, making it the standard metaphor for a dangerous liability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
hot potato; a troublesome issue or dangerous liability
Used identically to the English idiom 'hot potato' to describe a problem or person that is risky to handle and that everyone wants to get rid of quickly.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Lai got angry when he heard this, and told her not to do things the hard way.”
“Lai was already impatient from waiting,”
“Lai's been having bad luck.”
“Rong said he couldn't leave today.”
“But Jiang Cheng and Lai didn't get along from the start.”
“It's too dangerous for Mr. Zhou to go alone.”