不是 你不会去问别人 你长着嘴管的干什么的
“Well... Why didn't you ask others? What's the use of your mouth?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Then why didn't you tell me?”
不是 你 不会 去问别人 你 长着嘴管的干什么的
“Well... Why didn't you ask others? What's the use of your mouth?”
管着吃饭的 吃饭当然是要管
“You just care about eating or what? Of course eating is very important.”
“Stop blaming me for your own laziness; you could have easily found out if you actually cared.”
In close Chinese interpersonal relationships, defensive parties frequently deploy sharp, rhetorical questions targeting basic bodily faculties (like mouths or eyes) to signal extreme annoyance and neutralize guilt by portraying the other as overly dependent.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
What is your mouth even for? / Why don't you just ask?
A highly rhetorical and biting colloquial reproach used to criticize someone for failing to ask questions or speak up when needed.
Couldn't you just ask...?
Used in spoken Chinese to counter an accusation by highlighting an obvious alternative action the other person neglected.
