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from pillar to post (British & Australian) if someone goes from pillar to post, they are forced to keep moving from one place to another. After his mother died, Billy was passed from pillar to post and ended up in a children's home. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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We just get fired around from pillar to post and get licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows what it's done for. And here have I been knocking about, year after year, from pillar to post, as if I was no more than the commonest feller in the parish. At any rate, during the period of Lop-Ear's marriage I knocked about from pillar to post, in danger every night that I slept, and never comfortable. |
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from pillar to post
