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Korean idiom drift from place to place

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이리 굴고 저리 굴다

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  • 이리 굴고 저리 굴다

English rendering drift from place to place Literal translation: “roll this way and that”

Meaning 1

의지할 곳이 없어 정처 없이 돌아다니다.

To wander without a fixed destination, having nowhere to rely on.

Dictionary example 1

장돌뱅이 인생이 다 그렇지만 그도 어릴 때부터 이리 굴고 저리 굴고 하면서 어디 딱히 갈 곳이 없는 처지인가 보오.

All itinerant traders’ lives are like that, but he too seems to have drifted from place to place since childhood with nowhere definite to go.

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“이리 굴고 저리 굴다” — drift from place to place: To wander without a fixed destination, having nowhere to rely on.
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