有贼胆没贼心
“have the guts but not the desire.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
年纪大了吧
“and older people”
有贼胆没贼心
“have the guts but not the desire.”
依我看哪
“If you ask me,”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
Speakers often playfully invert well-known set phrases (chengyu or proverbs) to create witty, colloquial teasing among friends.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
having bold impulses but lacking true malice or resolve
A humorous inversion of the common idiom 'you zei xin mei zei dan' used to mock someone's harmless or indecisive behavior.
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“When young, they have the desire but not the guts”
“He really has no shame.”
“won't it show that I have a guilty conscience”
“I was guilty and scared,”
“Nothing was stolen.”
“-I said you're mistaken. -Feeling guilty? You don't dare admit it, do you?”