招风惹草

to stir up trouble (idiom) / to sow discord
(idiom) to bring trouble on oneself

Characters and words in 招风惹草

to recruit / to provoke / to beckon / to incur / to infect / contagious / a move (chess) / a maneuver / device / trick / to confess

= + : In front of the aorta (ao1), James II of England (zh) gives a blazing speech to recruit (招) new followers. Before giving his speech, he called everyone together via intercom (召). While speaking he is waving a toy claw (扌), which reminds many listeners of a weapon and thus provokes (招) many of them. Nevertheless, the ideas James II of England puts forward in his speech are quite contagious (招).
lit. to invite the wind / fig. conspicuous and inviting criticism
wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],絲|丝[si1]

= + : Frankenstein's Monster has to wait in front of the engine. Because the wind is blowing, he uses pliers to disassemble a small table and builds a shelter with the parts.
to provoke / to irritate / to vex / to stir up / to anger / to attract (troubles) / to cause (problems)

= + : A wooden chicken (若) is picking at Robinson Crusoe's (r) heart (心) in the elevator (e3) and its making him furious (惹).
variant of 草[cao3]

= + : The King of Chu has an important appointment today, so he set a special alarm the day before. Before he went to sleep on his artificial lawn, he set up a bale of straw just above his artificial lawn; when the alarm goes off the bale of straw will fall down on him and wake him up.
grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) / careless / rough / CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]

= + : The King of Chu has an important appointment today, so he set a special alarm the day before. Before he went to sleep on his artificial lawn, he set up a bale of straw just above his artificial lawn; when the alarm goes off the bale of straw will fall down on him and wake him up.
variant of 肏[cao4]

Words with 招风惹草

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