Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「東馳西擊」, explained here.
Here, we present the idiom 「東馳西擊」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
It means that there is no unified command and several armies act independently.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dōng chí xī jī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung1 chi4 sai1 gik1
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