舞文弄墨

舞
文
弄
墨
(idiom) to display one's facility with words / to show off one's literary skills / (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mo4] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[sheng2 mo4])

Characters and words in 舞文弄墨

舞
wǔ = w + Ø3
to dance / to wield / to brandish
舞 = 無 + 舛 : Willy Walrus (w) is still in complete harmony with the Tao (無) as he is dancing in trance through the space station (Ø3)—until he mistakenly (舛) hits the lever starting the emergency protocol, having alarms go off and what not.
文
wén = w + (e)n2
language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67
文 = 乂 + 亠 : Mnemonic symbol: a thick book.

Willy Walrus (w) wants to cook in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). The recipe book (文) is extremely greasy and Willy doesn't want it to touch anything, nor touch it. That's why he puts it into a beret (亠) so that it doesn't touch the floor, and uses pliers (乂) to turn the pages.
弄
lòng = lu + (e)ng4
lane / alley
弄 = 王 + 廾 : Martin Luther King (王) cannot take of his handcuffs (廾). Lenny Lemur (lu) is leading him secretly through a small lane (弄) into engine's bathroom ((e)ng4).
弄
nòng = nu + (e)ng4
to do / to manage / to handle / to play with / to fool with / to mess with / to fix / to toy with
弄 = 王 + 廾 : Nelson Newt (nu) has been fiddling (弄) with Martin Luther King's (王) handcuffs (廾) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) for hours until he was finally able to open them.
弄
挵
nòng = nu + (e)ng4
old variant of 弄[nong4]
弄 = 王 + 廾 : Nelson Newt (nu) has been fiddling (弄) with Martin Luther King's (王) handcuffs (廾) in the engine's bathroom ((e)ng4) for hours until he was finally able to open them.
弄
衖
lòng = lu + (e)ng4
variant of 弄[long4]
弄 = 王 + 廾 : Martin Luther King (王) cannot take of his handcuffs (廾). Lenny Lemur (lu) is leading him secretly through a small lane (弄) into engine's bathroom ((e)ng4).
墨
mò = m + o4
surname Mo / abbr. for 墨西哥[Mo4 xi1 ge1], Mexico
墨 = 土 + 黑 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is using his creativity to write a new protester's placard in the observatory's bathroom (o4). he fixed an ink stick (墨) to his head and writes on a blackboard (黑). Later he tries to use dirt (土) to clean his head, but he'll find that it won't work and some dirty words have been tattooed to his forehead (墨).
墨
mò = m + o4
ink stick / China ink / CL:塊|块[kuai4] / corporal punishment consisting of tattooing characters on the victim's forehead
墨 = 土 + 黑 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is using his creativity to write a new protester's placard in the observatory's bathroom (o4). he fixed an ink stick (墨) to his head and writes on a blackboard (黑). Later he tries to use dirt (土) to clean his head, but he'll find that it won't work and some dirty words have been tattooed to his forehead (墨).

Words with 舞文弄墨

舞文弄墨 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 舞文弄墨

舞文弄墨 currently does not appear in any sentence.