就跟天上掉下馅饼一样
“It's like a pie falling from the sky”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
得嘞 得嘞
“Alright, alright”
就 跟 天上掉下馅饼 一样
“It's like a pie falling from the sky”
我突然就要去城里当明星了
“I'm suddenly going to the city to be a star”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
While traditionally used in warnings that nothing comes without effort, the idiom is also commonly used to express absolute wonder when extraordinary luck actually occurs.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
a sudden windfall / a free stroke of luck out of the blue
A widespread colloquial idiom equivalent to 'manna from heaven' or an unexpected stroke of tremendous fortune.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“It was like money falling from the sky.”
“I can't believe something this lucky”
“It really felt like hitting the jackpot. At first, I was wondering”