他早晚出事情
“He will get into trouble sooner or later.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
他天天跟日本人搅和在一起 四面光 八面滑
“He mixes with the Japanese every day. He's a smooth operator, slick.”
他 早晚 出事 情
“He will get into trouble sooner or later.”
“Don't worry about him anymore. Worry about yourself.”
“His dangerous games will catch up with him soon enough.”
Chinese interpersonal philosophy often views overly slick fence-sitters ('round on all sides') with moral suspicion, predicting their schemes will inevitably end in disaster.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
sooner or later
A staple spoken adverb used to make confident predictions about an inevitable eventual outcome.
run into trouble / have an accident or disaster occur
A common colloquial phrase denoting that an undesirable problem, scandal, or catastrophe will happen.
