No. 18 · Sunday, July 19, 2026

A proverb opens it

An ancient proverb up front, then a compound and three idioms. The hardest is an abstraction rather than a picture.

This day has rolled out of the free window. The last seven days are always free to play; older days are part of Emoji Bee+.

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