洛阳纸贵

lit. paper has become expensive in Luoyang (because everyone is making a copy of a popular story) (idiom) / fig. (of a product) to sell like hotcakes

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surname Luo / old name of several rivers (in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui)

= + : Lenny Lemur (lu) is playing around with a water bottle (氵) in the observatory's bathroom (o4). It is a very special water bottle: it has the shape of a star (各). Lenny is squeezing the bottle and squirting so much water all around that several rivers (洛) form in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui.
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= + : Lenny Lemur (lu) is playing around with a water bottle (氵) in the observatory's bathroom (o4). It is a very special water bottle: it has the shape of a star (各). Lenny is squeezing the bottle and squirting so much water all around that several rivers (洛) form in Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Anhui.
Luoyang prefecture-level city in Henan, an old capital from pre-Han times
positive (electric.) / sun / male principle (Taoism) / Yang, opposite: 陰|阴[yin1]

= + : Maud Younger and the pope want to help the good people of the anglepod and install some solar power (太阳能) panels just inside the anglepod's kitchen. The sun helps them to generate positive electric charges by shining its rays (阳光) on the panel.
variant of 紙|纸[zhi3]
paper / CL:張|张[zhang1],沓[da2] / classifier for documents, letter etc

= + : James II of England (zh) is reading a newspaper (纸) in the space station (Ø3) as he discovers a silk worm (纟) is looking out of a big hole at him. James II of England is very angry at the silk worm, but he doesn't understand that the silk worm wanted to warn him against a great threat: Christopher MacLeod (氏) is standing behind him ready to kill him and take his super power. The silk worm in turn doesn't know that Christopher MacLeod has in fact come for him: he wants to have the super power of turning into a beautiful butterfly.
expensive / noble / precious / (honorific) your

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a treasure chest. Gitta Giraffe (gu) and the crab (贝) found a treasure chest (贵) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). Inside of the chest they found a very precious dart board (中) and flutes (一) made out of gold; they mistake the flutes for darts and play a game of darts throwing the flutes at the very expensive (贵) dart board.

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