以汤沃沸

to manage a situation badly (idiom)

Characters and words in 以汤沃沸

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.
surname Tang
rushing current
soup / hot or boiling water / decoction of medicinal herbs / water in which sth has been boiled

= 𠃓 + : Tecumseh (t) is cooking a soup (汤) in front of the anglepod (ang1). First he boils a bottle of water (氵), then he adds Icarus' wings (𠃓).
fertile / rich / to irrigate / to wash (of river)

= + : Willy Walrus (w) finds sleeping Snow White (夭) in the observatory's bathroom (o4). He wants to wake her up because he thinks she should be quite fertile (沃), so he empties a bottle of water (氵) over her. Unfortunately this is not what is needed to wake her up.
to boil

= + : Frankenstein's Monster (f) wants to boil (沸) a bottle of water (氵) in a woven basket (弗) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), but the water keeps flowing out of the woven basket and so Frankenstein's Monster is boiling with anger (沸).

Words with 以汤沃沸

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Sentences with 以汤沃沸

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