from pillar to post

Speech parts

1. from pillar to post - Adverb

2. from pillar to post - Phrase

Meaning

from one place or situation to another

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

hither and thither back and forth to and fro from post to pillar

Examples

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. Brock Yates

Now for the past five years or so, I don't know how long exactly, I have been more or less without permanent employment, wandering from pillar to post. You will say, ever since such and such a time you have been going downhill, you have been feeble, you have done nothing. Is that entirely true? Vincent van Gogh

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post. Rebecca Ferguson

we were driven from pillar to post Source: Internet

Also, a big thanks to the kind and thoughtful staff who had to wheel me from pillar to post and kept the wards sparkling. Source: Internet

He still got injured, got kicked from pillar to post, but all in the right way. Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

from pillar to post

Close letter words and terms

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