招兵買馬

to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army / fig. to expand business / to recruit new staff

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to recruit / to provoke / to beckon / to incur / to infect / contagious / a move (chess) / a maneuver / device / trick / to confess

= + : In front of the aorta (ao1), James II of England (zh) gives a blazing speech to recruit (招) new followers. Before giving his speech, he called everyone together via intercom (召). While speaking he is waving a toy claw (扌), which reminds many listeners of a weapon and thus provokes (招) many of them. Nevertheless, the ideas James II of England puts forward in his speech are quite contagious (招).
to recruit soldiers
soldiers / a force / an army / weapons / arms / military / warlike / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Brunhilde and the soldier visit a burial mound in front of the engine. It is round like a ball like the deceased inside. To commemorate the round fallen soldier they put up a big eight-ball.
to buy / to purchase

= + : Mahatma Gandhi visits the airplane. He sees a neat skull and a nice sickle, and he asks for the price, because he wants to buy them both.
surname Ma / abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]
horse / CL:匹[pi3] / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess

= + + : A beautiful unicorn rides on top of Mahatma Gandhi in the ashram.

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