打脸

    dǎliǎnMeaning:

    “打” means to “beat” or “slap,” and “脸” means “face.” Often used in the passive voice, as in the structure “被打脸,” this term is often used by Chinese netizens as a metaphor for “losing face because one’s action contradicts his words.” A similar English saying is “a slap in the face.”

    Example:

    A: 真没想到，锤子手机降价超过千元！

    Zhēn méi xiǎngdào, chuízi shǒujī jiàngjià chāoguò qiānyuán!

    Surprise! The price of Smartisan T1 phone dropped more than 1,000 yuan!

    B: 罗永浩不是说“特别反感手机厂商在新品上市时定一高价，之后很快又会降价的做法”吗？

    Luóyǒnghào bùshì shuō “tèbié fǎngǎn shǒujī chǎngshāng zài xīnpǐn shàngshì shí dìng yī gāojià, zhīhòu hěnkuài yòu huì jiàngjià de zuòfǎ” ma?

    Hasn’t Luo Yonghao (CEO of Smartisan Technology) said that he was “repulsed by those phone manufacturers who set a sky-high price for new products and then quickly lowered that price?”

    A: 是啊。他现在又说做企业应该不在乎被打脸，为了自己之前讲过的话而把企业推向危险的边缘是一个幼稚的想法。

    Shì a。Tā xiànzài yòu shuō zuò qǐyè yīnggāi bù zàihū bèi dǎliǎn, wèile zìjǐ zhīqián jiǎngguò de huà ér bǎ qǐyè tuīxiàng wēixiǎn de biānyuán shì yīgè yòuzhì de xiǎngfǎ。

    True. But now he says that it would be naive to put his company on the verge of danger to justify what he said before. He says an entrepreneur should not be afraid of a slap in the face.