狗咬吕洞宾 不识好人心哪
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
神经病
“You're impossible.”
狗咬吕洞宾 不识好人心 哪
“No good deed goes unpunished.”
早
“Morning.”
“I was just trying to help you, and you treat me like trash!”
Lü Dongbin is one of the revered Eight Immortals in Daoism; the folk tale illustrates the frustration of having saintly goodwill met with canine savagery.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
like a dog biting Lü Dongbin; to return good with evil
A popular allegorical saying (xiehouyu) used when someone mistreats someone who was trying to help them.
failing to recognize good intentions; ungrateful
Commonly paired with the first half of the idiom or used alone to chide ungrateful behavior.
Enhances the exasperated, lamenting tone of the complaint.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“How can you bite the hand that feeds you?”
“How did it suddenly become me going too far? -Isn't this just biting the hand that feeds you— -Let me have a look.”