罗雀掘鼠

lit. to net birds and dig for rats (idiom); fig. hard pressed for cash / on the verge of bankruptcy

Characters and words in 罗雀掘鼠

gauze / to collect / to gather / to catch / to sift

= + : Lenny Lemur wanted to catch a few bats with a net hang high across the observatory's kitchen. Instead, two bats catch him in a roll of gauze in a fly-by manoeuvre.
a freckle / lentigo
(bound form) small bird / sparrow / also pr. [qiao3]
to dig

= + : Zeus (ju) heard that the elevator was built on the remains of an ancient civilization, so he plans to unearth (掘) any relics. He has quite high diopter (屈) though and so, unknowingly, with his toy claw (扌) he digs (掘) right below the pillars inside the entrance (e2), eventually leading to the collapse of the elevator.
rat / mouse / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found that there are rats (鼠) in the space station (Ø3), and he wants to get rid of them. In a mortar (臼) pulverizes some petal leaves (丶丶丶丶) and a computer mouse (鼠) grinding with a dinosaur bone three times (丨丨丨). He hopes that the rats like the mixture and the heavy metals used to make the computer mouse will kill the rats.
(bound form) rat; mouse

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