臭名遠揚

stinking reputation / notorious far and wide

name / noun (part of speech) / place (e.g. among winners) / famous / classifier for people

stench / smelly / to smell (bad) / repulsive / loathsome / terrible / bad / severely / ruthlessly / dud (ammunition)

sense of smell / smell bad

far / distant / remote / (intensifier in a comparison) by far / much (lower etc)

to distance oneself from (classical)

(fame) spreads far and wide

abbr. for 揚州|扬州[Yang2 zhou1] / surname Yang

to raise / to hoist / the action of tossing or winnowing / scattering (in the wind) / to flutter / to propagate