畫餅充飢

lit. to allay one's hunger using a picture of a cake / to feed on illusions (idiom)

Characters and words in 畫餅充飢

to draw / picture / painting / CL:幅[fu2],張|张[zhang1] / classifier for paintings etc / variant of 劃|划[hua4]

= + + : Helga Horse (hu) decided to make the ashram's bathroom (a4) more beautiful, so she paints (画) her favourite field (田) on the wall using a flute (一). She doesn't watch out for the receptacles (凵) though, and gets shocked as her flute gets stuck in one of them.
round flat cake / cookie / cake / pastry / CL:張|张[zhang1]

= + : Brunhilde (bi) creates a new superfood inside of the engine ((e)ng3) by combining (并) a Chinese cruller (饣) with a flat bread (饼).
to fill / to satisfy / to fulfill / to act in place of / substitute / sufficient / full

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a charger for your mobile phone. Chantal Chicken (chu) has to charge her mobile phone, but the only charger (充) is outside in front of the engine ((e)ng1). Without any better option she waits outside in the cold wind for her phone to charge until she gets a runny nose (允). Lacking tissues she has to blow her nose into her beret (亠).
sufficient; full / to fill / to serve as; to act as / to act falsely as; to pose as
to allay one's hunger
(bound form) hungry

= + : On a space trip in front of the space station (Ø1) Joan of Arc (ji) is very hungry (饥). Although there is a Chinese crulle (饣) floating over a small table (几) right in front of her, she cannot reach it because she has no way of propulsion.

Words with 畫餅充飢

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