你板个死人脸给谁看
“No deadpan face.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
要性感妩媚一点
“Be a little sexy and charming.”
你 板个死人脸 给谁看
“No deadpan face.”
这不是殡仪馆
“This isn't a funeral home.”
“Wipe that miserable expression off your face right now.”
Comparing someone's sour face to death ('死人脸') is considered taboo and deeply insulting, as it evokes bad luck and uncooperativeness.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
wearing a deadpan/expressionless/sullen face
An offensive, blunt colloquial idiom criticizing someone for looking unpleasantly stiff, gloomy, or hostile.
for whose benefit? / who are you trying to show?
A rhetorical challenge indicating that performing such an attitude or emotion will win no sympathy.