疏谋少略

unable to plan / inept at strategy (idiom)

Characters and words in 疏谋少略

variant of 疏[shu1]
surname Shu
to dredge / to clear away obstruction / thin / sparse / scanty / distant (relation) / not close / to neglect / negligent / to present a memorial to the Emperor / commentary / annotation

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a dredger. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) is operating a dredger (疏) in front of the space station (Ø1). First he clears the way of all the beaks (㇇) and pendant-cups (㐬), then he puts up a barrier (止) to stop the space-road from being obstructed again.
to plan / to seek / scheme

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) put up an advertisement on an advertising column (讠) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). On the advertising he is playing "somewhere over the rainbow" on an ukulele (某), but his plan (谋) is that many people will come to hear his concert and before the concert he can give a long speech about India's independence to a lot of people.
few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: 少 looks like a smiley face. There's a food shortage (少) in the aorta, and Sherlock Holmes (sh) and Smiley (少) are looking for food in the living room (ao3). There's only one banana (丿) left. Soon they'll have to eat the many daisies (小) which are growing there.
young
brief; sketchy / outline; summary / to omit / (bound form before a single-character verb) a bit; somewhat; slightly / plan; strategy / to capture (territory)

= + : Loki (lü) wants to play a prank on the elevator's visitors. In the bathroom (e4) he plants a field (田) of stars (各) around the toilet. His plan (略) is that the visitors will then have to step on many spiky stars if they want to reach the toilet.
variant of 略[lüe4]

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