dipper; ladle

(coll.) to get one's words mixed up; to misspeak

(coll.) to crack sb's head open (often humorous)

(of rain) pouring

(dialect) spoon

bald head (colloquial)

top of the head; crown

seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)

downpour (idiom)

(of rain) to fall heavily

little water and few utensils; to live a frugal life (idiom)

kitchen utensils (literary)

lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as one's model (idiom); fig. to follow the existing pattern without modification

lit. to draw a dipper with a gourd as a model (idiom); fig. to copy slavishly

solve one problem only to find another cropping up

28-spotted ladybird; hadda beetle; Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata