次次当众让我下不来台
“You always embarrass me in public.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“You think that you're more well-educated than me.”
次次 当众 让我 下不来台
“You always embarrass me in public.”
“But exposing your actions has nothing to do with this matter.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Making someone 'unable to step down from the stage' (下不来台) publicly causes severe loss of face (丢面子), which often breeds lasting personal enmity in Chinese interpersonal relations.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
put on the spot; unable to back down gracefully or save face
A highly idiomatic colloquial expression used when someone is put in an embarrassing, awkward position publicly.
in public; in front of a crowd
Used before a verb to emphasize that an action took place in the open view of everyone.
