Variations on a colloquial Sinitic expression
When I walked into my "Language, Script, and Society in China" class on Tuesday morning at 9 a.m., the students were energetically discussing a colloquial expression. Those from south China didn't know the expression, but the ones from northeast China knew it, although they weren't entirely sure how to write it in characters, and there was some difference of opinion over how to pronounce it.
Finally, they agreed that we could write the sounds this way: yīdīlə.
Then we moved on to a consideration of the meaning of this expression. The consensus was that it meant "carry / pick up a group of things (such as a six pack)".
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