跑到我眼皮子底下行窃
“stealing right under my nose.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
现在马不停蹄地
“[Cang Fengzi, Tianyuan Sect] Now you come here non-stop,”
跑到我眼皮子底下 行窃
“stealing right under my nose.”
“You have nerve stealing right in front of me; do you think I am blind?”
Doing wrong 'under someone's nose' (眼皮子底下) is seen as a direct provocation and an insult to their competence and authority.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
right under someone's nose
A vivid colloquial idiom used when something happens in plain sight or very close by.
to commit theft / to steal
A formal term for stealing, often used in serious accusations or legal contexts.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“just rehearsed in secret”
“it was right under our noses all along.”
“She said she'd put him right under her nose so that he couldn't cause trouble.”
“ran away right under your nose.”
“what if he runs away right under our noses?”
“She slipped me 100 yuan”