左右 | zuǒ yòu | left and right; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence |
左右手 | zuǒ yòu shǒu | left and right hands; fig. collaboration |
不为左右袒 | bù wèi zuǒ yòu tǎn | to remain neutral in a quarrel (idiom) |
左右两难 | zuǒ yòu liǎng nán | dilemma; quandary; Scylla and Charybdis; between the devil and the deep blue sea (idiom) |
左右勾拳 | zuǒ yòu gōu quán | left hook and right hook (boxing); the old one-two |
左右袒 | zuǒ yòu tǎn | to take sides with; to be partial to; to be biased; to favor one side |
左右逢源 | zuǒ yòu féng yuán | lit. to get water source from every side (idiom); slick operator who can derive benefit from any situation |
王顾左右而言他 | wáng gù zuǒ yòu ér yán tā | the king looked left and right and then talked of other things; to digress from the topic of discussion (idiom) |