只有心里有鬼才怕鬼
“Only those with guilt fear ghosts.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
你要干吗呀
“What exactly do you want?”
只有 心里有鬼才怕鬼
“Only those with guilt fear ghosts.”
你不见导演去了吗
“Didn't you meet the director?”
“You're acting scared because you're guilty, so stop pretending.”
The saying stems from the belief that fear arises not from the outside threat itself, but from one's own internal guilt or wrongdoing.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to have a guilty conscience / to hide something dirty
An extremely common colloquial idiom used to call out someone acting shady, nervous, or defensive.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Unless you've got a guilty conscience?”
“But I have nothing to hide.”
“If you did nothing wrong, why would this happen? You!”
“Guilty conscience.”
“If there was a ghost, I'd see it, and smell it too.”
“Ghost! There's a ghost!”