饿死鬼脱胎呀 你们就不能等一会儿
“You little gremlins! Can't you just wait a minute?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
大奔驰
“Big Mercedes.”
饿死鬼脱胎 呀 你们 就不能 等一会儿
“You little gremlins! Can't you just wait a minute?”
“Honestly, you two are driving me crazy.”
“Show some manners and wait for everyone else instead of gorging yourselves like animals.”
In Chinese dining etiquette, beginning to eat before elders, guests, or all table companions are seated is considered ill-mannered; the Buddhist imagery of 'hungry ghosts' (饿鬼) is colloquially used to shame gluttonous impatience.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
reincarnation of a starved ghost; eating voraciously and impatiently
A colloquial hyperbolic idiom used teasingly or angrily to criticize someone eating greedily or prematurely.
wait a moment
A standard phrase used to ask others to pause or hold on.
Softens the rhetorical bite slightly while reinforcing rhetorical shock or incredulity.
