燈紅酒綠

lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment

Characters and words in 燈紅酒綠

lamp / light / lantern / CL:盞|盏[zhan3]

= + : Don Quixote (d) was going for a walk in front of the engine ((e)ng1) with his lantern (灯) when it suddenly catched fire (火). He used a lantern which utilizes hydrogen, and when he accidentally ripped his lantern open at a nail (丁) on the floor, the hydrogen caught fire.
surname Hong
red / popular / revolutionary / bonus

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a little red book.

Helga Horse (hu) is reading the little red book (红) in the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2), when she discovers that it is being eaten by a silk worm (纟). She overreacts a little and wants to beat the silk worm with a steel beam (工).
wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]

= + : The rooster and Maud Younger are downing some baijiu in the outhouse. Maud Younger doesn't notice though that the rooster is hiding a bottle of water behind him and every time when Maud is not looking he replaces his booze with water.
green / (slang) (derived from 綠帽子|绿帽子[lü4 mao4 zi5]) to cheat on (one's spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend)

绿 = + : Loki (lü) wants to preserve the green (绿) chlorophyll of leaves he collected in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) by putting them into his diary (录). As he opens his diary a few days later he is very upset to see that the silk worm (纟) ate all of them by eating through the pages of his diary.

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