posted by tamar.harrington on April 11, 2011 | 4 comments
Does anyone know what 砸场子 means? It was on an episode of 爱情公寓 I was watching the other night, and I looked it up in my usual Chinese dictionary, a special slang dictionary, and Googled/Baidued it. I couldn't get a clear answer. It seems from the context that it should mean something like "give undeserved admiration," but I'm not quite sure.
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Echo on April 11, 2011 | reply
@tamar.harrington,

It is a slang meaning someone does something(like breaking things or embarrassing people) at somewhere(usually somewhere people do business) to stop other people from doing something(usually business).

--Echo

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Brendan on April 12, 2011 | reply
Yup - everything from "trash the place" to "spoil everyone's fun." General meaning is probably something like "poisoning the well."
tamar.harrington on April 12, 2011 | reply
Thanks. I was off-base, I guess. But that makes sense, now.