前门打虎，后门打狼

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门
門
打
打
虎
虎
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后
後
门
門
打
打
狼
狼
to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another

Characters and words in 前门打虎，后门打狼

前
qián = qi + an2
front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly
前 = 䒑 + 刖 : The Queen of Hearts is smoking some weed just inside the anthill's kitchen. She's so high that she thinks the lamp in front of her is the moon which wants to stab her with a kitchen knife.
前 = 䒑 + 刖 : Mnemonic symbol: a front panel.
前
前
门
門
Qianmen subway station on Beijing Subway Line 2
前
前
门
門
front door / main entrance / honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門|后门, back-door or under the counter)
门
門
mén = m + (e)n2
surname Men
门
門
mén = m + (e)n2
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)
Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.
打
dá = d + a2
dozen (loanword)
打
dǎ = d + a3
to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to type / to mix up / to build / to fight / to fetch / to make / to tie up / to issue / to shoot / to calculate / to play (a game) / since / from
打 = 丁 + 扌 : Don Quixote (d) got lost in the ashram (a3) and is afraid of being beaten (打). He equips himself with a claw (扌) for the left hand and a nail (丁) for the right hand, ready to beat (打) anyone approaching him.
虎
hǔ = hu + Ø3
tiger / CL:隻|只[zhi1]
虎 = 几 + 虍 : Helga Horse (hu) is trying once more to get some nice stripes (虍). This time she is lying on the tiger's (虎) small table (几) to have him tattoo the stripes on her body in the space station (Ø3).
后
hòu = h + ou4
surname Hou
后
hòu = h + ou4
empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler
后
後
hòu = h + ou4
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
后 = ⺁ + 𠮛 : Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.
后
後
门
門
the back door / fig. under the counter (indirect way for influence or pressure) / anus
狼
láng = l + ang2
wolf / CL:匹[pi3],隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
狼 = 犭 + 良 : Sir Lancelot (l) took his dachshund (犭) out for a walk and in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) they met a wolf (狼). The dachshund played a very long time with the wolf and at the end of the day, the dachshund gives the wolf a thank you card (良) for playing with him for such a long time.

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