一个萝卜一个坑

lit. every turnip to its hole (idiom) / fig. each person has his own position / each to his own / horses for courses / every kettle has its lid

Characters and words in 一个萝卜一个坑

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

Maud Younger (y) forgot her keys to the space station (Ø1), all she brought outside was her flute (一). She has no choice but to crash the door with the giant flute.
used in 自個兒|自个儿[zi4 ge3 r5]
variant of 個|个[ge4]
(classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier) / (bound form) individual

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Neanderthal Man (人). Neanderthal Man (人) needs to use the elevator's bathroom (e4) but it's occupied by Guy Fawkes (g), and there's only space for one individual (个). Impatiently Neanderthal Man knocks on the door using his dinosaur bone (丨).
radish
radish (Raphanus sativus), esp. white radish 白蘿蔔|白萝卜[bai2 luo2 bo5] / CL:個|个[ge4],根[gen1]
surname Bu
(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]
hole / pit / tunnel / to defraud

= + : Karl Marx (k) finds out that turtleneck sweaters (亢) are completely out of fashion now, so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) he digs a deep pit (坑), throws the sweater inside and fills the pit with earth (土).
variant of 坑[keng1] / pit / hole

= + : Karl Marx (k) finds out that turtleneck sweaters (亢) are completely out of fashion now, so in front of the engine ((e)ng1) he digs a deep pit (坑), throws the sweater inside and fills the pit with earth (土).

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