畏首畏尾

afraid of the head, terrified of the tail (idiom); ever fearful and nervous / afraid of the slightest thing

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to fear

= + : There's a Chinese saying that goes 出生之犊不畏虎; a newborn calf doesn't fear the tiger. I'll represent 畏 by this calf.

Willy Walrus (w) just gave birth to a calf (畏) in a flowery field (田) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4). Christopher MacLeod (氏) spotted them and already lifts his broadsword, ready to strike. Willy Walrus is scared to death, but the calf knows nothing about the dangers of the world and thinks that Christopher MacLeod just wants to play.
head / chief / first (occasion, thing etc) / classifier for poems, songs etc

= + : In the outhouse, the chief lends his piece pipe to Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock smokes some weed in the pipe and looks at himself in a hand mirror, thinking that he's uber cool and that he'd pass as a quite formidable chief himself.
tail / remainder / remnant / extremity / sixth of the 28 constellations / classifier for fish

= + : Willy Walrus (w) knows that there is a ghost (尸) in the Eiffel Tower (ei3), but he cannot see it, so he set up a trap: he put a lot of sticky hair (毛) everywhere, and eventually the hair stuck to the ghost's tail (尾). Now that Willy Walrus can see where the ghost is he is able to drive it out.
horse's tail / pointed posterior section of a locust etc

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