泥

mud / clay / paste / pulp

restrained

Buddhist nun / (often used in phonetic spellings)

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

mashed potato

red ink paste used for seal

to try to smooth things over / to paper over the issues / to gloss things over

to fall flat on one's face

sealing clay / lute

a landslide

playdough

lit. to grow out of the mud unsullied (idiom) / fig. to be principled and incorruptible

as different as heaven and earth (idiom) / worlds apart

Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安[Yan2 an1], Shaanxi / "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces