对自己的老婆一毛不拔呀
“you're being so stingy with your wife.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
离婚了
“Now that you're divorced,”
对 自己的 老婆 一毛不拔 呀
“you're being so stingy with your wife.”
这是不搞得有点难看了
“Doesn't that look bad to you?”
“How can a man be so selfish and petty toward his own spouse?”
In traditional Chinese family expectations, a husband is supposed to provide generously for his wife; extreme stinginess is viewed not just as frugality, but as a severe lack of affection and character.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
extremely stingy / won't pluck a single feather
A vivid four-character idiom used colloquially to criticize someone who refuses to spend or share any money.
Amplifies the speaker's emotional outburst of disbelief and moral criticism.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“And his wife was such a fool.”
“and my family got nothing.”
“My wife even borrowed money from her family.”
“You never really knew your wife and family.”
“I'm a married single guy.”
“Hey! Hey!”