投鼠忌器

lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom) / to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents

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to cast / to send / to throw oneself (into the river etc) / to seek refuge / to place oneself into the hands of

= + : Tecumseh (t) is exerting an ancient sport of his tribe in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). He is hurling (投) a halberd (殳) as far as he can using a toy claw (扌).
rat / mouse / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

= + + : Sheldon Shrimp (shu) found that there are rats (鼠) in the space station (Ø3), and he wants to get rid of them. In a mortar (臼) pulverizes some petal leaves (丶丶丶丶) and a computer mouse (鼠) grinding with a dinosaur bone three times (丨丨丨). He hopes that the rats like the mixture and the heavy metals used to make the computer mouse will kill the rats.
(bound form) rat; mouse
to be jealous of / fear / dread / scruple / to avoid or abstain from / to quit / to give up sth

= + : Joan of Arc (ji) wants to just give up (忌), so in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) she pulls out her heart (心) using a butcher's hook (己).
device / tool / utensil / CL:臺|台[tai2]

= + : The Saint Bernard dog has been practising playing his bagpipe all day in the space station's bathroom. The Queen of Hearts is so annoyed that finally she grabbed a screwdriver as utensil to end this torture.

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