还说让你等着家里人给你收尸
“He says your family will be collecting your body.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
问你是不是不懂规矩
“He's asking if you don't understand the rules.”
还说 让 你等着 家里人 给你收尸
“He says your family will be collecting your body.”
我从来不打假拳
“I never throw a fight.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese criminal and martial arts underworld tropes, threatening that family will have to 'collect the body' is the ultimate intimidation tactic to force someone to adhere to unwritten codes.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to collect a corpse / bury the dead
An extreme expression used in threats to imply that someone will definitely be killed.
also said / furthermore they said
Commonly used to add another piece of reported speech or escalated information.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“you have to live to collect my body.”
“I'll go straight to collect your body.”
“come out and collect the body!”
“just don't forget to collect my body!”
“there probably wouldn't be anyone to collect my body.”
“It's to wait for you to clean up your mess.”