招搖過市

to parade oneself ostentatiously about town (idiom)

Characters and words in 招搖過市

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.
surname Guo
to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too-

= + : Gitta Giraffe is trying out her new gladiator sandals in the observatory's bathroom. She's even able to cross a puddle of water with them by just walking on the water, so thumbs up for her!
(experienced action marker)
market / city / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a supermarket.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) started a supermarket (市) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but all he has for sale right now are berets (亠) and towels (巾). He should have opened it at the beach!

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