我没心思搁你这儿瞎耽误工夫
“Wang Dazhu, I don't have time to waste on you.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
汪大柱
“Wang Dazhu, I don't have time to waste on you.”
我没心思搁你这儿瞎耽误工夫
“Wang Dazhu, I don't have time to waste on you.”
你自己说
“Tell me, were you involved in the 6.10 case in 1993?”
“Quit stalling and tell me right now, my patience is gone.”
While Chinese communicative norms often favor indirectness, Northern colloquial idioms like '搁你这儿瞎耽误工夫' are aggressively direct, deliberately stripping away politeness in heated conflicts.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
in no mood / have no inclination
Use this phrase to indicate that you lack the patience, interest, or mental bandwidth to engage in an activity.
waste time needlessly
A highly colloquial Northern Chinese expression used when someone or something is pointlessly delaying you.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't have time to chat with you.”
“We can't delay. See? Look at what Hu said. Right.”
“we'd better not waste any more time.”
“Don't waste your time on me.”
“I won't take up any more of your time.”
“I'm in no mood to joke around with you.”
“would you still be beating around the bush here?”
“I don't have time to read your naggy letter.”