以泪洗面

to bathe one's face in tears (idiom)

Characters and words in 以泪洗面

old variant of 以[yi3]
old variant of 以[yi3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 㠯 looks like a cool pair of safety goggles.

A ghost (尸) has been hiding from Maud Younger (Ø3) in a mandarin (口). Maud finds the mandarin in the space station's living room (Ø3) and squeezes the ghost out, and in order to (㠯) be protected from the mandarin juice flying all around in zero gravity she is wearing safety goggles (㠯).
abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)

= + : So this is Neanderthal Man with a fake nose. He has bushy eyebrows, so my symbol for 以 is going to be one of these fake noses that come with additional glasses, eyebrows, and a moustache: Groucho glasses.

= + : Maud Younger and Neanderthal Man prepared some costumes for Halloween in the space station. Neanderthal Man created a big fake nose, while Maud Younger made a pair of Groucho glasses.
tears

= + : Sir Lancelot (l) and the eye of providence (目) are collecting their tears (泪) using water bottles (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4).
to wash / to bathe / to develop (photo)

= + : It's shower day in the space station (Ø3)! Marie Curie (xi) and the FLOTUS (先) help wash (洗) each other using bottles of water (氵).
facial cleansing
face / side / surface / aspect / top / classifier for objects with flat surfaces such as drums, mirrors, flags etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a spray flask with one of these liquids which make a surface super slippery.

In the anthill's bathroom (an4), Marilyn Monroe (mi) wants to set up a wind wheel (丆) on top of a closet (囬). Just as she tries to fix it she slips and falls down, the wind wheel crashing on the floor. She didn't notice that somebody used a can of non-stick coating (面) on the closet's surfaces (面).
variant of 麵|面[mian4]
flour / noodles / (of food) soft (not crunchy) / (slang) (of a person) ineffectual / spineless

Words with 以泪洗面

以泪洗面 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 以泪洗面

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