老虎不好打 苍蝇更难捉
“A tiger is hard to fight, but flies are even harder to swat.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
还不是继续回来干
“and come right back at it.”
老虎不好打 苍蝇更难捉
“A tiger is hard to fight, but flies are even harder to swat.”
跑哪儿去了
“Where did they go?”
“Major targets are formidable, but these petty scoundrels slip through our fingers constantly.”
Widely popularized in modern Chinese discourse to contrast powerful high-level corruption or bosses ('tigers') with pervasive, petty low-level offenders ('flies').
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
difficult to fight / hard to tackle
A colloquial pattern [不 + 好 + Verb] indicating that an action is tough or troublesome to carry out successfully.
hard to catch / elusive
Commonly applied to elusive prey, fugitive suspects, or pests that constantly slip away.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“There's... A big tiger!”
“No fear? This kid wants to swallow the tiger.”
“”
“I'm quite good at swatting flies.”
“She's quite fierce.”
“Even flies look like meat to you now? I need to hit my targets.”