可不是我老婆子胡诌
“I'm not making this up.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“All the villagers saw and heard it.”
可不是 我老婆子胡诌
“I'm not making this up.”
大人
“My Lord,”
“Believe me, I am telling the absolute truth and not just babbling.”
Commoners, especially elderly rural women, frequently refer to themselves with self-effacing terms like 'lao po zi' when speaking to officials to display humility and avoid appearing presumptuous.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
definitely not / exactly so
Used to strongly emphasize a negative assertion or to validate an observation.
old woman (self-deprecating or colloquial)
A humble and colloquial self-reference used by elderly women in vernacular Chinese.
to fabricate nonsense / to make up stories
Used colloquially to criticize false claims or deny spreading rumors.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I admit it. She's my wife. No need for outsiders to comment.”
“Your wife and Hu Xiu are the same kind of people. What decent girl”
“I thought there was a problem with my wife.”
“If it were my wife, I couldn't let her do this.”
“I thought his wife did it.”
“that I was the one who told you.”