王顧左右而言他

the king looked left and right and then talked of other things / to digress from the topic of discussion (idiom)

king or monarch / best or strongest of its type / grand / great

to rule / to reign over

surname Gu

to look after / to take into consideration / to attend to

surname Zuo

left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3]

left and right / nearby / approximately / attendant / to control / to influence

right (-hand) / the Right (politics) / west (old)

(bound form) right; right-hand side / (bound form) (politics) right of center / (bound form) (old) west / (literary) the right side as the side of precedence

and / as well as / and so / but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates causal relation) / (indicates change of state) / (indicates contrast)

(typically preceded by 就…[jiu4 xx5] or 對…|对…[dui4 xx5] etc) as far as ... is concerned; speaking in terms of ...

words / speech / to say / to talk

he; him (used for either sex when the sex is unknown or unimportant) / (used before sb's name for emphasis) / (used as a meaningless mock object) / (literary) other