restrained

cement; CL:袋[dai4]

mashed potato

mud; mire

(idiom) to be dead drunk; to be plastered

silt; sludge; ooze

red ink paste used for seal

sealing clay; lute

playdough

to be a stickler for formalities; to rigidly adhere to; to cling to; constrained; ill at ease

fruit puree; fruit pulp

jujube paste

mud; sludge

plaster; mortar

clay

to remove mud; desliming (in coal production)

yam paste (a snack in Chaozhou cuisine)

thoroughly mashed or minced garlic; garlic paste

mashed potato

soft mud; silt; sludge; ooze (geology)

dirty snow; slush; abbr. for 雪泥鴻爪|雪泥鸿爪[xue3 ni2 hong2 zhao3]

to try to smooth things over; to paper over the issues; to gloss things over

to fall flat on one's face

see 和稀泥[huo4 xi1 ni2]

plasticine; modeling clay

white cement

apple sauce

bone cement; orthopedic cement

as different as heaven and earth (idiom); worlds apart

reinforced concrete

reinforced concrete

mashed potato

hummus

Portland cement

lit. when you pull a radish out of the ground, some dirt comes up with it (idiom); fig. to uncover, during the investigation of a crime, evidence of other crimes; to cause further problems while working on a problem

when radishes are selling fast, one doesn't take the time to wash the soil off them (idiom); fig. when business is booming, merchants tend to offer goods of inferior quality