What does 拽不死的 mean?

[anonymoose]

What does 拽不死的 mean specifically?

Also, could someone confirm that 拽 is pronounced zhuǎi here?

谢谢

[againstwind]

拽 may have two tones.

1）zhuai1 ：to throw

拿转头拽狗。

2）zhuai4 ：to drag, to haul

她拽着我的手不放。

What does 拽不死的 mean specifically?

Without context, I guess "拽不死的" might mean "扔不死的" （maybe something evry hard） or "拉不死的" (maybe something very strong, very solid).

[anonymoose]

againstwind, thanks for your reply, but I don't think it is any of those.

The context is, one of my colleagues was talking about her Chinese boyfriend going on a business trip to Germany. There he met another Chinese person who could speak German but not very good English. Nevertheless, that guy insisted on speaking to my colleague's boyfriend in English, even though his English was bad and they both speak Chinese as a native language. So my colleague said that guy was 拽不死的.

Also, as far as I could hear, it very much sounded like my colleague pronounced 拽 as zhuai3.

[semantic nuance]

From your context, I think the word you're looking for may be 跩 zhuai3. 跩 means 'cocky'. But I have no idea of the usage of 跩不死. Maybe it's used in China. I've never heard of it used in Taiwan.

Hope it helps!