橫挑鼻子豎挑眼

to pick on sth incessantly (idiom) / to criticize right and left

Characters and words in 橫挑鼻子豎挑眼

horizontal / across / crosswise / horizontal stroke (in Chinese characters) / to place (sth) flat (on a surface) / to cross (a river, etc) / in a jumble / chaotic / (in fixed expressions) harsh and unreasonable / violent

= + : Hamlet (h) climbed on the beam (横) of the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and now he is too afraid to come down again. If the Yellow Emperor (黄) doesn't want to call the fire brigade, for better or worse he'll have to climb the Christmas Tree (木) to pick Hamlet up.
harsh and unreasonable / unexpected
to carry on a shoulder pole / to choose / to pick / to nitpick

= + : In front of the aorta (ao1) Mother Teresa (ti) is carrying two vultures (兆) on a toy claw (扌) used as shoulder stick (挑).
to raise / to dig up / to poke / to prick / to incite / to stir up

= + : Mother Teresa (ti) is lying motionless inside of the aorta (ao3). The vultures (兆) want to know if she's already dead, so they poke (挑) her with a toy claw (扌).
nose

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a brandy nose.

Brunhilde (bi) was supposed to pass on (畀) the space station's brandy, but nobody came to the space station's entrance (Ø2) pick it up and so Brunhilde drank it all herself. Now as she is looking into her hand mirror (自) she notices that she got a big brandy nose (鼻).
nose / CL:個|个[ge4],隻|只[zhi1]
son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

= + : Zorro wants to eat an egg in the space station, and he already put it in a prize cup, as he has no egg cup. He also lacks a spoon, so he uses a big flute to crush the egg open.
(noun suffix)
to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

= + : In the space station's bathroom (Ø4) Sheldon Shrimp (shu) is experimenting with different ways of putting a radio (収) on top of a vase (立) in order to use the vase as resonating body to improve the sound quality. In the end he decides that the best way to put the radio is to set it up vertically (竖).
eye / small hole / crux (of a matter) / CL:隻|只[zhi1],雙|双[shuang1] / classifier for big hollow things (wells, stoves, pots etc)

= + : Inside of the anthill, Maud Younger played a prank on the Eye of Providence. She told it that she would apply a mask to alleviate the wrinkles around its eyes, but instead she just covered its whole eye with chewing gum.

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