What does the phrase 「こうしちゃおれんな」mean?


Here is the sentence that includes the phrase.

> なんと 忘れてしまった！ 格好だけに **こうしちゃおれんな** ！




こうしちゃおれん is a contraction of こうしてはいられない. It's used by an ojisan-type speaker.
ては becomes ちゃ in colloquial speech. おれん is a colloquial negative form of おれる,
which is a potential form of おる, which is a little dialectal variant of いる.

こうしてはいられない literally means "I/We cannot be doing this", but it's an idiom that
means something along the lines of "It's of no use staying here", "We're
wasting time now", "(I just noticed) I must handle this now".




こうしちゃおれん is a contraction of こうしてはいられない. It's used by an ojisan-type speaker.
ては becomes ちゃ in colloquial speech. おれん is a colloquial negative form of おれる,
which is a potential form of おる, which is a little dialectal variant of いる.

こうしてはいられない literally means "I/We cannot be doing this", but it's an idiom that
means something along the lines of "It's of no use staying here", "We're
wasting time now", "(I just noticed) I must handle this now".

