chase the wind and lightning
Zhuiy ú nzh ú di à n: very fast. It comes from the fourteenth Chapter 3 of Ren Guangchun's "the story of the hundred days movement of 1898".
Idioms and allusions
It's from Ren Guangchun's the story of the hundred days movement of 1898, Chapter 14: "after all, it's a good horse selected by the people of tension. It's really a four legged horse, chasing the clouds and chasing the lightning."
Discrimination of words
Usage: used as attributive and adverbial; often used in figurative sentences
chase the wind and lightning
plunge the people into misery and suffering - shēng líng tú tàn
course of nature and one's conscience - tiān lǐ liáng xīn
make frivolous remarks about sb . 's appearance - pǐn tóu lùn zú
dress in the coarse hempen cloth black - pī má dài suǒ