操斧伐柯

(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax / fig. to follow a principle / fig. to act as matchmaker

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old variant of 操[cao1]

= + : The King of Chu is exercising in front of the aorta. He is standing on one leg, and holding a toy claw in each hand. With the toy claws, he is balancing two large cuckoo's clocks respectively.
to grasp / to hold / to operate / to manage / to control / to steer / to exercise / to drill (practice) / to play / to speak (a language)

= + : The King of Chu is exercising in front of the aorta. He is standing on one leg, and holding a toy claw in each hand. With the toy claws, he is balancing two large cuckoo's clocks respectively.
variant of 肏[cao4]
hatchet
to cut down / to fell / to dispatch an expedition against / to attack / to boast / Taiwan pr. [fa1]

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) is marching up and down in the ashram's kitchen (a2). Rosa Luxemburg (亻) is really annoyed and cuts him down (伐) with a spear (戈). Frankenstein's Monster gets up and attacks (伐) her in revenge.
(cf Book of Songs) How to fashion an ax handle? You need an ax / fig. to follow a principle / fig. to act as matchmaker
surname Ke
tree branch / stem / ax handle

= + : Karl Marx (k) is recycling a Christmas tree (木) in front of the elevator (e1). He uses the stem (柯) to make boards for his bed of nails (可), the needles of the tree as the nails for his bed of nails and the branches of the tree to make handles for his axes (柯).
(literary) branch; stem; stalk / (literary) ax handle

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