大驚失色

to turn pale with fright (idiom)

Characters and words in 大驚失色

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

= + : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.
with great alarm
to startle / to be frightened / to be scared / alarm

= + : Somebody set off engine's alarm in the middle of the night and Joan of Arc arrives in a rush to scare away any intruder with a flail. She was in such a rush and so tired though that she forgot to put on her pants and arrives in front of the engine just wearing ridiculous underpants which feature a pattern of berets, mandarins and daisies.
to lose / to miss / to fail

= 𠂉 + : Sherlock (sh) locked himself out of the space station (Ø1)! He lost (失) his key (𠂉)! After he was floating in front of the space station for an eternity, a robot (大) came by with a lost+found box (失) which contained his lost key.
to lose color / to turn pale
color / CL:種|种[zhong3] / look / appearance / sex

= + : In the elevator's bathroom, Socrates watches a crane lick a beautiful lollipop. The lollipop features every color existing on earth.
(coll.) color / used in 色子[shai3 zi5]

= + : In the airplane, Sherlock Holmes watches the crane licking a very tasty lollipop. He wants to have it, so he challenges the crane for it. The crane agrees to give him the lollipop if he can beat him in a dice game.

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