救命稻草

(one's) last straw to clutch at / one's last hope

Characters and words in 救命稻草

variant of 救[jiu4]

= + : Joan of Arc is using the bathroom in the outhouse just when construction workers are starting to tear the whole place down using sledgehammers without noticing her. Joan of Arc starts to panic and hits a service request bell again and again, hoping that someone will hear it and save her. Unfortunately the sledgehammers are far louder than the bell.
to save / to assist / to rescue

= + : Joan of Arc is using the bathroom in the outhouse just when construction workers are starting to tear the whole place down using sledgehammers without noticing her. Joan of Arc starts to panic and hits a service request bell again and again, hoping that someone will hear it and save her. Unfortunately the sledgehammers are far louder than the bell.
to save sb's life / (interj.) Help! / Save me!
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc

= + : In engine's bathroom, Marilyn Monroe kow tows before a pointed hat. She thinks that this is her fate.
paddy / rice (Oryza sativa)

= + : Don Quixote (d) is on his new job for the first day in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). He's supposed to work as a scarecrow (稻草人) to protect the rice paddy (稻), but instead he is scooping up (舀) all the rice (稻) and puts it in his cereals (禾).
variant of 草[cao3]

= + : The King of Chu has an important appointment today, so he set a special alarm the day before. Before he went to sleep on his artificial lawn, he set up a bale of straw just above his artificial lawn; when the alarm goes off the bale of straw will fall down on him and wake him up.
grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]

= + : The King of Chu has an important appointment today, so he set a special alarm the day before. Before he went to sleep on his artificial lawn, he set up a bale of straw just above his artificial lawn; when the alarm goes off the bale of straw will fall down on him and wake him up.
variant of 肏[cao4]

Words with 救命稻草

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