这条小鱼会通风报信
“this tiny fish will spill the beans”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
现在放了
“If we release it now,”
这条小鱼会 通风报信
“this tiny fish will spill the beans”
告诉其他的鱼
“and tell the other fish.”
“Don't let it go, or it will ruin our fishing by warning the rest.”
Native speakers love using serious or espionage-related idioms like '通风报信' in trivial, mundane contexts to create comedic contrast.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to tip off / to pass secret information to accomplices
An idiomatic four-character idiom (chengyu) typically used for spies or accomplices, often used humorously in daily speech.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I came all the way here to warn you”
“- Came to tip him off? - Officer He,”
“There are tiny fish in the water.”
“This tiny fish must've been overthinking just now”
“we found the person who brought Xiaoyu in.”
“if no one had tipped them off”