hither and thither (not comparable)

1. (rare, now literary) To here and to there, in a reciprocating manner.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 54

     And the passion that held Strickland was a passion to create beauty. It gave him no peace. It urged him hither and thither.

2. (figuratively) In a disorderly manner.
   • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 12, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red_Badge_of_Courage_(1895)/Chapter_12#119 page 119]:

     Presently, men were running hither and thither in all ways.

• from pillar to post, from post to pillar (obsolete)

• French: çà et là
• German: hin und her
• Italian: qua e là
• Portuguese: aqui e ali
• Russian: туда́-сюда́