拆招牌
caak3 ziu1 paai4chāi zhāo pái
English
- lit. to remove one's signboard, meaning to destroy one's good reputation
- to challenge and defeat a master of certain technique or someone with reputation in the industry; figuratively, to humiliate someone in face, to put someone to shame in person. Literally "to remove the signboard"
- to disclose the bad business practices or sub-standard products in the front door of a company and let the public know, as a revenge
粵語 — Cantonese
- 挑戰及戰勝擁有某種技藝及一定名聲嘅師傅,即係成功踢館;引伸指當面羞辱人,破壞人聲譽
- 去某商號門口,向公眾揭露佢不良經營手法或出品差劣,作出報復
Examples
聽聞你打遍全港無人能敵,我今日就上嚟拆你招牌!
I heard you are the best fighter in Hong Kong, today I come here to defeat you !
我做看更一向擔屎唔偷食,個個街坊都知,你想借失竊呢單嘢拆我招牌?無咁易。
I'm honest and clean in my post as a security, and all the neighborhood know that well, you want to humiliate me by the case of theft ? Not that easy. ----
呢間鋪唔係正經賣貨而係搞層壓式推銷,根本就揾人笨,俾人拆招牌只係遲早嘅事。
This shop is not selling goods normally but playing pyramid scheme, which is a cheat to customers, it is just a matter of time being disclosed about the bad business practices.
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk