臨渴掘井

lit. not to dig a well until one is thirsty / to be unprepared and seek help at the last minute (idiom)

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to face / to overlook / to arrive / to be (just) about to / just before

= + + + : In the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2), the robot (大) oversees (临) his army by standing on a huge wooden box (囗). The box is only able to carry his weight because it has been reinforced using a dinosaur bone (丨) acting as a pillar. Just as the robot is about to (临) wave his kitchen knife (刂) into the direction his troops should charge, Li Qingzhao (li) shows up and kicks away the dinosaur bone, causing the robot to fall off his box.
thirsty

= + : Karl Marx (k) is really thirsty (渴) in the elevator (e3), where he finds a water bottle (氵) vending machine. The water is free, but attached to the machine he finds a quiz wheel (曷): only when he is able to answer five questions in a row he will get a bottle of water.
to dig

= + : Zeus (ju) heard that the elevator was built on the remains of an ancient civilization, so he plans to unearth (掘) any relics. He has quite high diopter (屈) though and so, unknowingly, with his toy claw (扌) he digs (掘) right below the pillars inside the entrance (e2), eventually leading to the collapse of the elevator.
Jing, one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy / surname Jing
a well / CL:口[kou3] / neat / orderly

= + 丿 + : Joan of Arc is digging a well inside engine. At first she was doing it by hand, but then she hooked up a capacitor to a banana and a dinosaur bone, which dig for her using the electrical energy.

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