In court: Did you observe…? I swear I saw…

black ink made with black soil

as a component: “口字旁” or “口字底”

microphone at a debate: a very even argument, hard to evaluate OR evaluating apples on a scale and announcing through a microphone your rating

This body part of drummer boy Peng is getting puffy.

we gather for Thanksgiving and turkeys gather in a tree to hide

Your hand turns white when you clap.

The COVID-19 epidemic started in China, was flung to the rest of the world, and then boomeranged back in 2022.

copies produced again and again

Mother, I am slumping because I have lost the race.

"Princess Bling uses pressurized cans of air to clean her tiaras to make them shiny." (Royal Family)

duped into going to the laundry mat, only to have to wait, yawning, because you lack an open washing machine

ten times the profit when you sell what you buy

I-beams strengthen ordinary office buildings

tour guide warning of snakes (in a microphone) “remember to watch out!”

This shirt is modeled after a bird’s tail.

patrol route like a stream, just keeps flowing down the road;, Patrol the Stream: “Hoovervilles” are shantytowns built by the homeless during the Great Depression (named after President Herbert Hoover, whom many want to blame for the economic downturn). The Dust Bowl has exacerbated conditions, and some people in California are trying to patrol their border to prevent the stream of “Okies” from coming into their state.

Once again you must instruct your hunting companion. Leaving an axe bloody deserves a reprimand.

how to win a princess (like Snow White): go to her coffin, kiss her on her lips (a winning body part), offer her money and sail away with her