"We need that machine tomorrow?"
"Why didn't you tell us you hired something new?"
"They work here for 2 weeks now"
"Why didn't you tell us you hired something new?"
"They work here for 2 weeks now"
Chinese lesson two: really don't call them "not a thing".
¹: Also it's still my favourite, uh, thing that the word for a "thing" is, literally, an "east-west".
A "thing" or "stuff" in Chinese is 东西 (dōngxi). That's literally "east-west" if you pick the individual characters apart. That's what the footnote refers to.
Calling somebody 不是个东西 (bùshì ge dōngxī) means something along the lines of being good for nothing, i.e. an insult. Translating it literally, it would be calling somebody "not a thing".
Saying someone is irrelevant is likely an insult, also in English.
"Tauch' deinen Füller nie in Firmentinte."
That's a very important advice!
Poetic
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