没想跟他动手来的
“I didn't intend to get physical with him.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“even if we're in the right, we'd be in the wrong.”
没想跟他动手来的
“I didn't intend to get physical with him.”
“Isn't paying back debts the universal truth?”
“Don't blame me, things just got out of hand!”
In Chinese conflict resolution, losing physical composure or initiating violence forfeits moral high ground (you li bian mei li), regardless of who was originally in the right.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
get physical; start a fight
Commonly used in spoken Chinese to refer to resorting to violence or throwing punches.
originally; in the first place
A northern Mandarin sentence-final structure recalling an original intention or fact from the past.