招搖撞騙

(idiom) to dupe people by passing oneself off as a well-connected individual or a figure of authority

Characters and words in 招搖撞騙

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 rock back and forth / (fig.) to act ostentatiously / to brag / to show off
surname Yao

= + + : The aorta has been flooded, and Maud Younger (y) takes the opportunity to establish a new business. She connects many floating pottery (缶) bowls using toy claws (扌) and in this way builds a small raft. On this raft she is ready to shave anyone's head for a small fee using her electric razor (爫), but as she is floating through the aorta's kitchen (ao2) she notices that not only the raft is very shaky and wobbly (摇), but also that there is no electricity available and the razor's batteries are already dead.
to shake / to rock / to row / to crank

= + + : The aorta has been flooded, and Maud Younger (y) takes the opportunity to establish a new business. She connects many floating pottery (缶) bowls using toy claws (扌) and in this way builds a small raft. On this raft she is ready to shave anyone's head for a small fee using her electric razor (爫), but as she is floating through the aorta's kitchen (ao2) she notices that not only the raft is very shaky and wobbly (摇), but also that there is no electricity available and the razor's batteries are already dead.
to knock against / to bump into / to run into / to meet by accident

= + : The golden boy (童) is trying to hit (撞) Julian Giant Squid (zhu) with a toy claw (扌) in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4), but he has no chance against his many tentacles and many toy claws.
to cheat / to swindle / to deceive / to get on (a horse etc) by swinging one leg over

= + : Pocahontas (pi) promised the unicorn (马) to take it on a wild and natural wild water ride, but as she shows him her small boat (扁) in the flooded bathroom of the anthill (an4) the unicorn feels kind of cheated (骗).

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