a remote doctor diagnosing pool-side with a microphone and cocktail in hand

one's elder pays the bill (with "shells")

shell out the bucks to pay the long bill

a peddler sells shells, or the converse, collects "shells" for whatever she sells

see a snake and your heart shuns it

加油，because the eggplant soaks up so much

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picture deep frying (炸zhá) a saw in a fire until it explodes (炸zhà)

When walking an animal, you often have to stop and stay on the road while it does its business.

Walk and Stay: After a long day on the road this dog is happy to stay under the truck rather than be walked. (1930's On the Road)

Your persona yells, "Mate, your mate's on fire!"

a meme expressing "I bleed for you" or I sympathize with you. Picture this meme on a T-shirt, as 恤 is used in the transliterated word for T-shirt, T恤衫 t-xùshān.

A fashion show on the renovated portion of the Great Wall with a theme of bird tails and fur.

the repeated feeling of relying on others makes you lazy

easy to pick out someone with a sword

bamboo records kept of citizenship, a Christmas tree indicated foreigner in times past

**may want to add 耤jí as a primitive, "plow" is already used in 以, maybe "traditions"

A Christmas tree is a bushy tree.

alternative breakdown: 竹 + ⺈ + 肀 bamboo + mask + rake; What if a 古筝 (Chinese zither) was actually an old bamboo rake masked as a beautiful instrument?

The warm sun tells the flock to migrate.

Birds of one feather flock together (like friends).

publications hanging to dry on a clothesline, long ones get cut with a sword