我们这么多人耽误干活了是吧
“All of us wasted our time, right?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“And lost wages. Yeah. There's also lost wages.”
我们 这么多 人 耽误干活 了 是吧
“All of us wasted our time, right?”
“There's lost wages, you know?”
“You caused all of us to lose a day's wages, so you had better pay up.”
In Chinese grassroots disputes, '误工费' is commonly demanded whenever an accident, brawl, or delay prevents laborers from earning daily pay.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to delay or hold up work
A practical spoken phrase used frequently in construction, casual labor, or workplace dispute settings.
so many people / this many of us
Used pragmatically to magnify the scale of impact or grievance during an argument.
Marks the disruption of work as an already realized, irreversible fact.
Functions as a tag question demanding immediate agreement and cornering the opponent.
