look around
Looking east and West, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à nggu à NGX à w à ng, which means to look around and see what's going on. From Yu Shi Ming Yan.
Notes on Idioms
Watch: look; look: look into the distance.
The origin of Idioms
Feng Menglong's Yu Shi Ming Yan of Ming Dynasty, Vol.26: "Duke Zhang is also flustered. I'm afraid someone will bump into him when he looks around."
Idiom usage
It means to wait and see. Chapter 43 of Water Margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty: stand up, look around, and you can see an nunnery on the top of the mountain far away. He is so anxious that he looks around, but there is no help.
look around
perspiration came down like raindrops - huī hàn rú yǔ
Nails are nails, rivets are rivets - dīng shì dīng,mǎo shì mǎo
give up one 's life in a critical situation - lín wēi shòu mìng
have succumbed to the influence of many cups - jiǔ hān ěr shú