be scattered to the four winds idiom literary
四散开来;散布在各处
If a group of things or people are scattered to the four winds, they go or are sent to different places that are far away from each other.
It was the finest collection of paintings in Denmark, but during the last war it was broken up and scattered to the four winds. 这本是丹麦最好的一批藏画，但是在上一次战争中散逸各处。