lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other / you can't always get everything you want / you can't have your cake and eat it
鱼
=
⺈
+
田
+
一
:
Yu the Great set up a small rice field just inside the entrance of the space station, and there are some fish swimming in the rice field. The space station's crane spotted them and wants to snap one out of the rice field, but just as he was about to snatch one of them, Yu the Great hit him with a flute.
与
=
马
:
This one looks like 马 with eyes closed, so let's use a sleepy horse as symbol. To distinguish it let's say it's a sleepy black horse.
与
=
马
:
The space station has to be evacuated! Together with the unicorn, Yu the Great tries to wake up the sleepy black horse, but it sleeps really tight.
bear / (coll.) to scold / to rebuke / (coll.) weak / incapable
熊
=
灬
+
能
:
Xu Xian (xu) conquered engine and to celebrate his victory he sets up a grill (灬) in the kitchen ((e)ng2). He feels like Napoleon and wears a bicorne hat (能) while grilling a whole bear (熊).
palm of the hand / sole of the foot / paw / horseshoe / to slap / to hold in one's hand / to wield
掌
=
尚
+
手
:
Inside the anglepod (ang3), James II of England (zh) and the Buddhist monk (尚) play catch using two baseball gloves (手) and a horseshoe (掌).
lit. the fish and the bear's paw, you can't have both at the same time (idiom, from Mencius); fig. you must choose one or the other / you can't always get everything you want / you can't have your cake and eat it