是不是该千刀万剐
“shouldn't he be cut to pieces?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“That bastard who deceived his Mom—”
是不是该 千刀万剐
“shouldn't he be cut to pieces?”
那个家教
“That tutor—”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
The idiom refers to the imperial capital punishment of slow slicing, used in contemporary speech as hyperbolic condemnation of immoral acts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to be hacked into pieces; to suffer death by a thousand cuts
An intense four-character idiom used colloquially to express extreme hatred and that someone deserves the worst punishment imaginable.
doesn't [someone] deserve to / shouldn't [someone]
Used rhetorically to rally moral support and demand mutual agreement on a severe judgment.
