成也萧何,败也萧何

lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军[da4 jiang1 jun1] / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor

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surname Cheng

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a progress bar stuck at 99%.

= + : Charlie Chaplin is queuing at the engine's kitchen, which is blocked by a neuron until the progress bar above shows 100%. Unfortunately it has been stuck at 99% for two hours now. If it doesn't finish soon, Charlie will get completely mad and destroy the neuron himself with his spear.
to succeed / to finish / to complete / to accomplish / to become / to turn into / to be all right / OK! / one tenth

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a progress bar stuck at 99%.

= + : Charlie Chaplin is queuing at the engine's kitchen, which is blocked by a neuron until the progress bar above shows 100%. Unfortunately it has been stuck at 99% for two hours now. If it doesn't finish soon, Charlie will get completely mad and destroy the neuron himself with his spear.
also / too / (in Classical Chinese) final particle implying affirmation

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: the excavator (as in a person with this job), because a plow and a shovel are both tools for moving earth, and a dinosaur bone is what excavators are digging for.

Maud Younger (y) is helping an excavator (也) in the elevator (e3). Together they are excavating a dinosaur bone (丨): Maud turns the earth with a plow (㇆), while the excavator moves the earth with a shovel (乚).
(adverb) also; both ... and ... (before predicates only) / (literary) particle having functions similar to 啊[a5]
surname Xiao

= + : Marie Curie (xi) is very miserable (萧) due to the economic crisis (萧). In front of the aorta (ao1) she has nothing left to eat but a sheet of artificial lawn (艹). She first cleans it up (肃) before miserably eating bits and pieces off the artificial lawn.
miserable / desolate / dreary / Chinese mugwort

= + : Marie Curie (xi) is very miserable (萧) due to the economic crisis (萧). In front of the aorta (ao1) she has nothing left to eat but a sheet of artificial lawn (艹). She first cleans it up (肃) before miserably eating bits and pieces off the artificial lawn.
Xiao He (-193 BC), famous strategist and chancellor, fought on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦[Liu2 Bang1] side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争[Chu3 Han4 Zhan4 zheng1]
surname He
what / how / why / which / carry

= + : Mnemonic symbol (from "carry"): baby sling

= + : In the elevator's kitchen, Rosa Luxemburg picks up the crying baby Hamlet from his bed of nails, puts him in his baby sling and tries to calm him down.
to defeat / to damage / to lose (to an opponent) / to fail / to wither

= + : Beelzebub threatens to hurt a crab with a sledgehammer should it not obey in the airplane's bathroom. The crab has no option but to declare defeat and obey Beelzebub's orders.

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