翘首以待

to hold one's breath (in anticipation) (idiom) / to anxiously await

Characters and words in 翘首以待

outstanding / to raise

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) anxiously awaits her outstanding (翘) lover, Tang Yao (尧), in the aorta's kitchen (ao2). She greets him by raising (翘) her feather (羽) to give him an idea of the things to come.
to stick up / to rise on one end / to tilt

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) and Tang Yao (尧) are happily playing on a see-saw (翘) in the aorta's bathroom (ao4). To tilt (翘) the see-saw they are waving with feathers (羽) to create enough momentum.
to raise one's head and look
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc

= + : In the outhouse, the chief lends his piece pipe to Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock smokes some weed in the pipe and looks at himself in a hand mirror, thinking that he's uber cool and that he'd pass as a quite formidable chief himself.
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.
to stay

= + : In front of the airplane someone devoted huge black sneakers to the local buddhist shrine. Don Quixote fits into them with his whole body and the sneakers are so cozy that he thinks he could stay like this forever.
to wait / to treat / to deal with / to need / going to (do sth) / about to / intending to

Words with 翘首以待

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Sentences with 翘首以待

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