摩拳擦掌

fig. to rub one's fists and wipe one's palms (idiom) / to roll up one's sleeves for battle / eager to get into action or start on a task

Characters and words in 摩拳擦掌

to rub

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) set up a complicated machine which in essence uses many flax fiber (麻) ropes to operate baseball gloves (手) in the observatory's kitchen (o2). The machine is set up so that Mahatma Gandhi has the baseball gloves massage (摩) his back when he pulls the right ropes.
fist / boxing

= + : Cupid (qu) trains his fist (拳) in the anthill's kitchen (an2). He just started though, so he wants to start easy and just hits a baseball glove (手) he hung on the wall. Unfortunately he hung it right over the anthill's off-button (关) so that upon his first hit the lights go out.
to wipe / to erase / rubbing (brush stroke in painting) / to clean / to polish

= + : The undercover agent (察) found out that soon the super villain he is following will arrive at the ashram. As he waits in front of the lighthouse (a1) the King of Chu (c) arrives. Certain that it must be the villain the agent quickly tries to rub off (擦) the King's make-up using a toy claw (扌), hoping to unmask the villain.
palm of the hand / sole of the foot / paw / horseshoe / to slap / to hold in one's hand / to wield

= + : Inside the anglepod (ang3), James II of England (zh) and the Buddhist monk (尚) play catch using two baseball gloves (手) and a horseshoe (掌).

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