from pillar to post

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from pillar to post

Fig. from one place to a series of other places; (figuratively) from person to person, as with gossip. My father was in the army, and we moved from pillar to post year after year. After I told one person my secret, it went quickly from pillar to post.

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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. The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen View in context 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. Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context 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. Before Adam by London, Jack View in context More results

? References in classic literature

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.

The Red Badge of Courage by Crane, Stephen View in context

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.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context

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.

Before Adam by London, Jack View in context

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