就那仨瓜俩枣的饷
“With pay that little,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
那才是有得忙呢
“That's when we'll be busy.”
就那仨瓜俩枣的饷
“With pay that little,”
咱们随便转转得了
“let's just patrol casually.”
“They barely pay us anything, so why should we bother working hard?”
Complaining about meager compensation to rationalize slacking off on duty is a common trope in workplace solidarity among peers.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
mere peanuts; a negligible amount of money
A highly colloquial northern Chinese idiom used to describe a trivial sum of money or meager compensation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“and pays me peanuts. And he always orders me around.”
“Your family runs a big business. The little money I make”
“making peanuts from dancing.”
“The military funds allocated to the Northwestern border army were divided into four routes.”
“Money isn't better than melon! I'm glad you like it.”
“to give money and food to the poor.”