东讨西征
dōng​tǎo​xī​zhēng

to fight on all sides

  • created sense approved 东讨西征/東討西征 · dōng​tǎo​xī​zhēng · to fight on all sides — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    东讨西征 / 東討西征

    dōng​tǎo​xī​zhēng

    to fight on all sides

    (idiom) to conduct military campaigns in every direction; to fight in all four quarters

    东 (literal) → 东/東 · dōng · [haphazard] 讨 (literal) → 讨/討 · tǎo · to send a punitive force 西 (literal) → 西 · xī · here and there 征 (literal) → 征 · zhēng · to go on a campaign

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