削足适履

to cut the feet to fit the shoes (idiom); to force sth to fit (as to a Procrustean bed) / impractical or inelegant solution

Characters and words in 削足适履

to peel with a knife / to pare / to cut (a ball at tennis etc)

= + : In front of the aorta (ao1) Marie Curie (xi) teaches the little prince (肖) how to peel (削) fruits using a kitchen knife (刂).
to pare / to reduce / to remove / Taiwan pr. [xue4]

= + : Olymp's rulers decided that they want to reduce (削) their staff. In front of the elevator (e1) Xu Xian (xu) and the little prince (肖) have to fight with kitchen knifes (刂) to see who will be allowed to stay.
excessive
foot / to be sufficient / ample

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a football. Zapatista Zebra (zu) wants to pimp his football (足) in the space station's kitchen (Ø2). He thinks that a few more vitamins wouldn't hurt, so he extracts the vitamins from a mandarin (口) with a syringe (龰) to inject them into his football.
see 李适[Li3 Kuo4]
surname Shi

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) got some new gladiator sandals (辶), but in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) he finds that they don't fit (适) his feet. He does notice however that they fit (适) quite nicely his tongue (舌) if he sticks it into one of the sandals.
to fit / suitable / proper / just (now) / comfortable / well / to go / to follow or pursue

= + : Sherlock Holmes (sh) got some new gladiator sandals (辶), but in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) he finds that they don't fit (适) his feet. He does notice however that they fit (适) quite nicely his tongue (舌) if he sticks it into one of the sandals.
shoe / to tread on

Words with 削足适履

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