临时放咱们鸽子
“She stood us up at the last minute.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
临时放咱们鸽子
“She stood us up at the last minute.”
项目到收尾阶段了
“The project's in its final stage.”
“She totally bailed on us right when we needed her most—unbelievable!”
The idiom '放鸽子' (releasing pigeons) originates from historical bird racing and postal scams, evolved in modern Mandarin to describe someone bailing on a scheduled engagement.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to stand someone up / to flake out
An essential colloquial idiom meaning to fail to keep an appointment or promise unexpectedly.
at the last minute / temporarily
Used before verbs to indicate that an action was decided or occurred without prior notice.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“getting stood up today”
“We've been using carrier pigeons to communicate.”
“He has clearly bailed on us, as the situation has spoken for itself.”