火中取栗

lit. to pull chestnuts out of the fire (idiom) / fig. to be sb's cat's-paw

Characters and words in 火中取栗

fire / urgent / ammunition / fiery or flaming / internal heat (Chinese medicine) / hot (popular) / classifier for military units (old) / Kangxi radical 86

= + : Helga Horse (hu) and Neanderthal Man (人) are starting a fire (火) in the observatory's living room (o3) with two large petals (丶).
China / Chinese / surname Zhong
within / among / in / middle / center / while (doing sth) / during / (dialect) OK / all right

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a dart board, because you always try to hit the center.

Julian Giant Squid (zhu-) is throwing dinosaur bones (丨) as darts on a dart board in front of the engine ((e)ng1). To make it a bit more difficult he's throwing mandarins (口) into the air as well and skewers them up right in the center (中 is a mandarin skewered on a dinosaur bone) in mid flight with the dinosaur bones. He's still able to consistently hit the center (中) of the dart board.
to hit (the mark) / to be hit by / to suffer / to win (a prize, a lottery)
to take / to get / to choose / to fetch

= + : Mnemonic symbol when used as component in other characters: a bloody ear.

When Mike Tyson was fighting against Evander Holyfield, he did not only beat Evander's ear (耳) with his boxing glove (又). Imagine this fight in the space station (Ø3) with cupid (qu) as referee fetching (取) a bloody ear flying through the space station.
afraid / trembling
surname Li
chestnut

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) is beating chestnuts (栗) off the Christmas tree (木) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) using a knuckle duster (覀). She beats them so hard that the chestnuts open the very moment the knuckle duster hits them.
(literary) cold; chilly / (bound form) to tremble with fear

Words with 火中取栗

火中取栗 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 火中取栗

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