أراك تقدم رجلاً وتؤخر أخرى
I see you putting one foot forward and drawing the other back.
The expression can depict hesitation in a person who cannot settle on an action. It presents a scene with verbs and their complements; the intended meaning is not necessarily physical steps but indecision.
The analytical question is whether the whole represented situation has been transferred, or an individual term has changed its meaning. A sentence being grammatically composite is not the same as its figure being composite in scope.