as a component: “衣字旁”

Dentist is poking around with his dental hook and hooks your tongue. Chaos!! Pain!

Sleep in till noon on New Year’s day, then start checking the boxes of your New Year’s resolutions.

fortune teller looks into cooking fire, then looks away and sees spots: uses these to tell your fortune (Macbeth)

"The Cunning Canine" One behavior that demonstrates the cunning of dogs is the instinct to bury bones. Moral: Saving a little for later is a cunning idea. (Fables)

to get the fowl to leave, flash an umbrella at them

Soon there was a very long queue of men at the silver mining office ready to be hired.

comparing spoons

as a component: “山字旁” or “山字头”

Picture a top hat blowing away in a whirlwind.

hand it over and say “according to my residence certificate…”

alternatively: 口+日+日 mouth + sun + day; You sing “Sunny Day” from Sesame Street.

“On a sunny day, he’ll sing.” (Trumpeter Wu)

Mother, may I put eight points on the ground and lay on my stomach? (If you are completely flat on your stomach, let's say you touch the floor in eight spots, starting with your lower legs: toes, knees, hips, chest, wrists, shoulders, chin, nose.)

Picture smoke from the beans ascending through the hole of the thatched roof.

Max Dart sits on the side and doubts Yakov needs a spear to train for the Spartan Race.

The groom says "Hey, woman, you are coming home to my house tonight." (Wedding Planner)

Mother: I learned in Chinese tradition, a woman is married to another house. / Daughter: We got married, then bought a house.

close the hood, plug it in and pressure cook the beans