东奔西走
dōngbēn-xīzǒu
Meaning
- to run this way and that (idiom); to rush about busily
- to bustle about
- to hopscotch
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- also 東跑西顛|东跑西颠[dong1 pao3 xi1 dian1]
Example
长年累月东奔西走忙死了，生活太没有规律了。
I'm so busy running about year in, year out. My life has no consistency.
Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).
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