磕头如捣蒜

lit. to kowtow like grinding garlic (idiom) / fig. to pound the ground with one's head

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to tap / to knock (against sth hard) / to knock (mud from boots, ashes from a pipe etc)

= + : Karl Marx (k) knows he has to put out his cigarette before he can enter the elevator (e1) and his first instinct is to put his cigarette out by tapping (磕) it on the ancient stones (石) in front of the elevator (e1). He thinks "why not" (盍), but first makes a list with pros and cons (盍) to find the right solution to his problem.
variant of 嗑[ke4]
to kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)
head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Tecumseh (t) is inspecting is depiction in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). He's depicted as having a skull (mnemonic symbol for 头) head (头) with two petal leaves (⺀) in the eye holes, and having a robot (大) body.
suffix for nouns
as / as if / such as

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Asif ibn Barkhiya, according to the Qur'an, throne hauler at the court of king Salomon.

= + : Just inside the space station's entrance, Asif ibn Barkhiya, Rachel Rhinoceros and Bessie Coleman are playing monkey, throwing a mandarin as if they were little kids.
to pound / to beat / to hull / to attack / to disturb / to stir

= + : Don Quixote (d) is attacking (捣) an island (岛) in the aorta (ao3) using a toy claw (扌).
garlic / CL:頭|头[tou2],瓣[ban4]

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