騎虎難下

if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway

Characters and words in 騎虎難下

(Tw) saddle horse / mounted soldier
to sit astride / to ride (a horse, bike etc) / classifier for saddle horses

= + : The Queen of Hearts (qi) is pursuing her favourite hobby just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2): she is riding (骑) a unicorn (马) drinking a cappuccino (奇).
tiger / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + : Helga Horse (hu) is trying once more to get some nice stripes (虍). This time she is lying on the tiger's (虎) small table (几) to have him tattoo the stripes on her body in the space station (Ø3).
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a video game which is almost impossible to beat.

= + : Just inside the anthill's kitchen, Napoleon and a sparrow are trying to beat an insanely difficult video game. After playing and failing all day long Napoleon finally loses his temper and crashes the game wearing two boxing gloves.
disaster / distress / to scold
down / downwards / below / lower / later / next (week etc) / second (of two parts) / to decline / to go down / to arrive at (a decision, conclusion etc) / measure word to show the frequency of an action

= + : Mnemonic symbol: from the up/down logic, and a little bit the shape of the character, a ladder.

Xi Shi (xi) is on a retreat in the ashram. Using a voodoo staff (卜), she divined that next (下) week she'll have to play the flute (一) sixteen hours per day. Because she hates playing the flute, she climbs over the ashram's bathroom (a4) wall using a ladder (下) to escape.

Words with 騎虎難下

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Sentences with 騎虎難下

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