你又要出什么幺蛾子
“What are you trying to do?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你等会
“Wait.”
你 又要 出什么幺蛾子
“What are you trying to do?”
“What? Can't the defendant take a toilet break?”
“What ridiculous stunt or headache are you trying to pull on me this time?”
Originally dialectal Beijing/Northern slang, 'producing a demon moth' colorfully depicts brewing unpredictable, capricious, or tricky trouble.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
pull a weird stunt / cause unexpected trouble / hatch a wacky scheme
A vivid Northern Chinese colloquial idiom used when someone does something eccentric, disruptive, or troublesome.
about to ... again
Expresses dread or annoyance regarding the repetition of an undesirable action.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“What are you up to now?”
“What is he up to? In the future, if you have any illnesses,”
“you still managed to stir up trouble.”
“what are they up to now?”