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28 Cards in this Set
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*siesta |
Conjure up the classic portrait of the Latin siesta: a muchacho |
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thirst |
As you pass by the muchacho taking the siesta, he cries out that |
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audience |
Imagine an audience with the emperor or the pope in which all |
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brown |
The color of the serape or cloak of our muchacho on siesta is a |
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hoarse |
When the muchacho on siesta looks up at you and opens his |
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delicious |
Something is so downright delicious that one spends the entire |
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fat |
This kanji tells us that if you feed the μesh with too many delicious |
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I(one) |
The Roman numeral i, like that for ii we met earlier in frame |
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*reclining |
The picture is obvious: the ³rst stroke represents the head, and |
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every |
“Behind every successful person lies a woman…,” who usually |
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cleverness |
Behind every successful taskmaster, the cleverness of a fox to |
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plum |
Behind every Jack Horner’s piemaker, a tree full of plums |
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sea |
Behind every drop of water, a sea from which all water originally |
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beg |
See someone lying down in a public place with a hook in place |
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drought |
In times of drought anything at all will do. Here we see the victims |
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*double back |
Either the connotations of turning around and heading back |
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abdomen |
If you double back (fold over) most animals in the middle, the |
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duplicate |
In its original and etymologically transparent sense, to duplicate |
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lack |
The pictograph hidden in this character is of someone yawning. |
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blow |
To blow is really no more than a deliberate effort to make one’s |
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cook |
Better to picture what happens when you do not pay attention |
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song |
The song in this kanji is being sung by a chorus line of can-can |
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soft |
If the cushions of one’s car are too soft, one may begin yawning |
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next |
This key word connotes the “next in line” of a succession of |
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briar |
Earlier we made mention of the story of Briar Rose (or “Sleeping |
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assets |
The ³rst shells (money) you earn, you use to pay your debts. |
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figure |
This kanji depicts a woman’s ³gure as a sort of second self. |
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consult with |
To seek the words of a second mouth is to consult with someone |