焚膏继晷

to burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day

Characters and words in 焚膏继晷

to burn
ointment / paste / CL:帖[tie3]

= + : Guy Fawkes (g) built a skyscraper (高) in front of the aorta (ao1) which reaches up to the moon (月). Every month when the moon is full Guy Fawkes climbs the skyscraper to apply pain relieving paste (膏) to the moon's back to help him with his back pain.
to moisten / to grease / to apply (cream, ointment) / to dip a brush in ink
to continue / to follow after / to go on with / to succeed / to inherit / then / afterwards

= + + : Joan of Arc (ji) has to watch how a sack of rice (米) falls on the silk worm (纟) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and squeezes the silk worm to death. Joan of Arc, while burying the silk worm with a shovel (乚) under a heap of rice, swears to continue (继) the silk worm's work. She will take over the silk worm's jacket and earthenware bowl (继) and continue (继) its work to build the ultimate cocoon.
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