让他觉得自己已经露馅了
“made him realize he'd already blown his cover”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Or maybe these incompetents you brought with you”
让他觉得 自己 已经 露馅 了
“made him realize he'd already blown his cover”
有人要对付他
“and that someone was coming after him.”
“Your incompetent team blew our cover and spooked the target.”
Chinese frequently uses culinary failures, such as dumpling stuffing bursting out (露馅), to metaphorically describe secrets leaking or pretenses collapsing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
leak the secret / blow one's cover
A vivid northern idiom literally meaning 'filling leaking out of a dumpling', used when a hidden secret or flaw is unintentionally exposed.
Marks a completed change of state, indicating the secret has definitively been exposed.