馬尾穿豆腐，提不起來

lit. like tofu strung on horsetail, you can't lift it / fig. let's not talk of this (pun on 提[ti2])

surname Ma / abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]

horse / CL:匹[pi3] / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess

Mawei district of Fuzhou city 福州市[Fu2 zhou1 shi4], Fujian

ponytail (hairstyle) / horse's tail / slender fibers like horse's tail (applies to various plants)

tail / remainder / remnant / extremity / sixth of the 28 constellations / classifier for fish

horse's tail / pointed posterior section of a locust etc

to wear / to put on / to dress / to bore through / to pierce / to perforate / to penetrate / to pass through / to thread

variant of 豆[dou4]

bean / pea / CL:棵[ke1],粒[li4] / sacrificial vessel

tofu / bean curd

decay / rotten

used in 提防[di1 fang5] and 提溜[di1 liu5]

to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

to stand up / to get up / also pr. [qi3 lai2]

(after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站[zhan4]) / indicating completion / (after a perception verb, e.g. 看[kan4]) expressing preliminary judgment / also pr. [qi3 lai5]

to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next