浑水摸鱼

to fish in troubled water (idiom); to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain

Characters and words in 浑水摸鱼

muddy / to mix

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and the general (军) are partying in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). The general hands her a water bottle (氵), but the liquid inside seems very muddy (浑). Helga suspects that the general mixed (浑) her a drink she shouldn't drink.
surname Shui
water / river / liquid / beverage / additional charges or income / (of clothes) classifier for number of washes

= + + 丿 + : Sheldon Shrimp just climbed the Eiffel Tower. He's really thirsty, so he's glad to find a water fountain. After he quenches his thirst, he also finds a snack: A banana is swimming in the water. He never ate a banana before, so he tries a mix of different methods: Putting on a fake beak to pick on the banana, holding it with a finger and peeling it with a crowbar.
to feel with the hand / to touch / to stroke / to grope / to steal / to abstract

= + : Mozart (莫) finds Mahatma Gandhi (m) lying motionless in front of the observatory (o1), and since there is none who (莫) is allowed to touch him he uses a toy claw (扌) to feel (摸) his pulse.
variant of 摹[mo2]
to catch fish / (fig.) to loaf on the job / to be slack / to take it easy
surname Yu
fish / CL:條|条[tiao2],尾[wei3]

= + + : Yu the Great set up a small rice field just inside the entrance of the space station, and there are some fish swimming in the rice field. The space station's crane spotted them and wants to snap one out of the rice field, but just as he was about to snatch one of them, Yu the Great hit him with a flute.

Words with 浑水摸鱼

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