flee in all directions
Running east and running west, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à NGT á ox à Cu à n, which means running around. It's from xingshihengyan.
The origin of Idioms
Feng Menglong of Ming Dynasty's "awakening the world" Volume 3: "husband and wife, desolate and panic, fled East and West, disorderly for a few years."
Idiom usage
It means to run away. example the lost souls flee East and West, like dragons in shallow water and tigers in deep forest. The sixty sixth chapter of biography of heroes by Xu Wei in Ming Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : dōng táo xī cuàn
flee in all directions
evil men usurping authority. chái láng héng dào
cover a thousand li in a single day. rì xíng qiān lǐ
make up one 's face heavily and dress gaudily. nóng zhuāng yàn guǒ
win victory the moment one raises one 's standard. qí kāi dé shèng