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Grumbling 100
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phrases
Worn out
10
累死我了 - tired to death - uses 死 as a pure intensifier, and it is not dramatic in Chinese: 热死了, 饿死了 work the same way. 忙得喘不过气 - so busy I can't catch my breath - uses the 得 pattern to attach the consequence.
Moaning about work
10
开不完的会 - meetings that never finish - uses the 不完 ending to mean an inexhaustible supply, and the shape works for anything: 做不完的事. 干得多拿得少 - do more, take less - is four characters of wage complaint with a parallel structure.
Money worries
10
钱不经花 - money doesn't withstand spending - is a beautifully compact complaint: 经 means to endure, so the money simply cannot take it. 这钱花得冤枉 - that money was spent unjustly - uses 冤枉, the word for a wrongful accusation, about a purchase.
Fed up with someone
10
我服了他了 - I'm defeated by him - is sarcastic here: 服 means to submit, and in this frame it means the opposite of admiration. 真拿他没办法 - I really have no method for him - admits defeat more gently and is usually said with some affection.
Waiting and red tape
10
白跑一趟 - a trip made in vain - uses 白 (white) to mean "for nothing", and the same 白 appears in 白忙一场 and 白等了. Learn 白 as a prefix of futility and several complaints open at once.
Making a complaint
10
请给我一个说法 - please give me an explanation - is the formal demand for accountability, and 说法 means both an explanation and a settlement. This is the phrase that changes a complaint from venting into a request with a shape.
Regret and sighing
10
说多了都是泪 - say more and it's all tears - is an internet-born phrase that has settled into ordinary speech, and it closes a story you would rather not finish. 只能自认倒霉 - I can only admit my own bad luck - accepts a loss no one will compensate.
That's not fair
10
凭什么啊 - on what grounds? - is the sharpest phrase in this set and should be used carefully: it challenges someone's right to do what they did. 我招谁惹谁了 - whom did I provoke? - protests innocence by asking a question with no answer.
Hearing someone out
10
你别憋着，说出来 - don't hold it in, say it - gives permission, which is what a person venting actually needs. 气大伤身 - great anger harms the body - is folk medicine offered as comfort, and 有我在呢 - I'm here - is the shortest and best of them.
Letting it go
10
天塌不下来 - the sky won't fall - is the reassurance that ends this category well, and 明天又是新的一天 closes it better still. 我认了 - I accept it - is short and heavy: it means you have stopped fighting a result you did not choose.
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