兵来将敌,水来土堰

counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action / to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

Characters and words in 兵来将敌,水来土堰

soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Brunhilde and the soldier visit a burial mound in front of the engine. It is round like a ball like the deceased inside. To commemorate the round fallen soldier they put up a big eight-ball.
to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next

= + : Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Sir Lancelot (l) is visiting the mailwoman (來) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2). As a gift, he brought a Christmas tree (木) decorated with rubber chicken (从).

= + : Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Lancelot (l) is super happy that his inflatable crocodile (丷) and live size Ai Weiwei (未) puppet finally arrived (来). The mailwoman (来) delivered them straight to the kitchen of the airplane (ai2).
will / shall / to use / to take / to checkmate / just a short while ago / (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
general / commander-in-chief (military) / king (chess piece) / to command / to lead

= + + : The chess king (将) is commanding (将) his bats (夕) to attack Joan of Arc (ji) with sawdust (丬) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) to punish her for her sins. He gives the command by showing the thumbs up (寸) sign.
to desire / to invite / to request
(bound form) a general / (literary) to command; to lead / (Chinese chess) general (on the black side, equivalent to a king in Western chess)
enemy / to be a match for / to rival / to resist / to withstand

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) is fighting her enemy (敌), the Wicked Witch of the West, by attacking her with a sledgehammer (攵) while threatening her with her tongue (舌) stuck out just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2).
surname Shui
water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

= + + 丿 + : Sheldon Shrimp just climbed the Eiffel Tower. He's really thirsty, so he's glad to find a water fountain. After he quenches his thirst, he also finds a snack: A banana is swimming in the water. He never ate a banana before, so he tries a mix of different methods: Putting on a fake beak to pick on the banana, holding it with a finger and peeling it with a crowbar.
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
weir

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