鞭长莫及

lit. the whip cannot reach (idiom); beyond one's influence / too far to be able to help

Characters and words in 鞭长莫及

whip or lash / to flog / to whip / conductor's baton / segmented iron weapon (old) / penis (of animal, served as food)

= 便 + : Brunhilde (bi) is working on her skill with the whip (鞭) in front of the anthill (an1). She spans a cow's hide (革) like a trampoline and throws her mobile phone (便) on it. She then starts to whip (鞭) the mobile phone up and has it jump on the cow's hide just for fun.
length / long / forever / always / constantly

= + + 丿 : Charlie Chaplin sped into the anglepod riding his longboard, but in the kitchen he doesn't know how to stop. He manages to make a u-turn by hooking him to the pole of a wind wheel with a sickle, but after the turn he can't help but bump into a giant banana.
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance

= + + 丿 : The chief (长) is asking James II of England (zh) for help, because his wind wheel (丆) in the anglepod's living room (丆) isn't performing very well. After finding out that there's too much friction, James II of England uses a sickle (乛) to cut open a banana (丿) and uses the pulp to grease the wind wheel and enhance (长) its performance.
surname Mo
do not / there is none who

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: 莫扎特, Mozart. Mozart (莫) is giving a concert in the observatory's bathroom (o4). He is sourroundes by sheets of artificial lawn (艹), and since there is none who (莫) is allowed to touch the lawn, it is guarded by a big robot (大). Mahatma Gandhi (m) is in the audience and in the middle of the concert he jumps on the lawn to protest against the sun (日), who is also in the audience, because the sun is responsible for draughts which threaten the farmers. In the end the robot has to carry Gandhi away.
and / to reach / up to / in time for

= + : Mnemonic symbol: Chinese General 宇文化及 (yu3 wen2 hua4 ji2) from the seventh century.

= + : Just inside the space station's entrance a poltergeist is harassing Joan of Arc and Yuwen Huaji by pointing with his fingers at them.

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