名列前茅

名 = 口 + 夕 : Mnemonic symbol: a name badge (from 名牌).

Marilyn Monroe (mi) prepared a mandarin (口) for her bat (夕) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) and put her little darling's name badge (名) in front of it.

列 = 刂 + 歹 : Mnemonic symbol: archangel Gabriel, 加百列.

The apocalypse has come, and archangel Gabriel (列) came down from heaven with his list (列) of people who are accepted. In the elevator's bathroom (e4) he tells Li Qingzhao (li) that she's on his list, and he tells the wicked witch (歹) that she's not. The wicked witch freaks out and takes Li Qingzhao as her hostage holding a kitchen knife (刂) to Qingzhao's throat.

前 = 䒑 + 刖 : The Queen of Hearts is smoking some weed just inside the anthill's kitchen. She's so high that she thinks the lamp in front of her is the moon which wants to stab her with a kitchen knife.

前 = 䒑 + 刖 : Mnemonic symbol: a front panel.

茅 = 艹 + 矛 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) set up a thatched hut (茅) just inside the aorta's kitchen (ao2). He stuck four lances (矛) into the ground and built the roof with artificial lawn (艹), reeds (茅), and rushes (茅).

茅 = 艹 + 矛 : Mahatma Gandhi (m) set up a thatched hut (茅) just inside the aorta's kitchen (ao2). He stuck four lances (矛) into the ground and built the roof with artificial lawn (艹), reeds (茅), and rushes (茅).