怕是难以如愿以偿了
“to deal with me.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
怕是 难以 如愿以偿 了
“to deal with me.”
“You wanted to get rid of me? Tough luck, you're not going to pull it off.”
Using polite hedges like '怕是' (I fear) paired with elegant literary idioms like '如愿以偿' during mortal confrontations creates refined, biting sarcasm.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
I'm afraid that / most likely
A polite or rhetorical hedge used here with irony to assert a virtually certain, negative prediction.
hard to / difficult to
A formal prefix combined with a verb to mean 'hard to achieve'.
to get one's wish / to have one's desires fulfilled
A common four-character idiom (chengyu) describing achieving what one hoped for.
Indicates a finalized change of state, delivering a sense of certainty about the opponent's impending failure.