橫眉豎眼

Characters and words in 橫眉豎眼

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 concentrate one's eyebrows / to frown / to scowl
eyebrow / upper margin

= + + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) and the Eye of Providence (目) fell asleep in the Eiffel Tower's kitchen (ei2), and a ghost (尸) is using the opportunity to play a prank on them. Using a dinosaur bone (丨) which he stuck into black ashes earlier he draws big monobrows (眉) on their faces, using the dinosaur bone like an eyebrow pencil (眉).
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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