All Fours

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Agreement	Adjective: agreeing, suiting; Verb: in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial; coherent; becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with; Noun: at one with, of one mind, of a piece; consistent, compatible, proportionate; commensurate; on all fours.
Facility	Verb: be easy; Adjective: go on smoothly, run smoothly; have full play; Noun: go on all fours, run on all fours; obey the helm, work well.
Horizontality	Adverb: horizontally; Adjective: on one's back, on all fours, on its beam ends.
Humility	Adverb: with downcast eyes, with bated breath, with bended knee; on all fours, on one's feet.
Identity	Adverb: identically; Adjective: on all fours.
Prosperity	Verb: prosper, thrive, flourish; be prosperous; Adjective: drive a roaring trade, do a booming business; go on well, go on smoothly, go on swimmingly; sail before the wind, swim with the tide; run smooth, run smoothly, run on all fours.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Non-Fiction Usage: All Fours

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions: All Fours

Modern Translations: All Fours

Language		Translations for "all fours"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		mbi të katër këmbët (on all fours), këmbadoras (on all fours). (various references)

Arabic		‏مشي على أربع (on all fours), ‏حبا على أربع (on all fours), ‏زحف (crawl, crawl on all fours, crawling, creep, creeping, draggle, grovel, march, scramble, trail). (various references)

Bulgarian		на ръце и колена (on all fours), лазя на четири крака (crawl on all fours). (various references)

Czech		po všech ètyřech (on all fours), po ètyřech (on all fours), plazit se po ètyřech (crawl on all fours). (various references)

Finnish		nelinkontin (on all fours). (various references)

French		se traîner (crawl on all fours), se ramper (crawl on all fours), marcher sur quatre pattes (walk on all fours), � quatre pattes (on all fours). (various references)

German		auf allen vieren kriechen (to crawl on all fours). (various references)

Greek		σύρνομαι στα τέσσερα (crawl on all fours), αρκουδίζω (crawl on all fours). (various references)

Hebrew		ללכת על ארבע (crawl on all fours). (various references)

Hungarian		sántít a dolog (it does not go on all fours), nincs egészen rendjén (it does not go on all fours). (various references)

Indonesian		eram (brood, crouch on all fours, hatch). (various references)

Italian		carponi (on all fours). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		四つ�"這い (falling flat, on all fours, on one's hands and feet), 四つ�"ばい (falling flat, on all fours, on one's hands and feet). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		よつ�"ばい (falling flat, on all fours, on one's hands and feet), よっつ�"ばい (falling flat, on all fours, on one's hands and feet). (various references)

Pig Latin		allay oursfay

Romanian		merge în patru labe (go on all fours), fi egal (be on all fours with), în patru labe (on all fours). (various references)

Russian		на четвереньках (on all fours), ползти на четвереньках (crawl on all fours), ползком (crawling, on all fours). (various references)

Scottish		m� garan (creeping on all fours). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ići na sve četiri (crawl on all fours), četvoronoške (four: on all fours). (various references)

Spanish		a gatas (on all fours), gatear (crawl on all fours). (various references)

Swedish		på alla fyra (on all fours), krypa på alla fyra (crawl on all fours). (various references)

Turkish		dört ayak. (various references)

Ukranian		рачки (on all fours). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: All Fours

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-o-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: florals.
	-2 letters: floral, floras, flours, fluors, safrol.
	-3 letters: afoul, falls, farls, faros, flora, flour, fluor, foals, fouls, fours, fulls, furls, loafs, loral, lours, ollas, orals, rolfs, rolls, salol, sofar, solar, sulfa, sulfo, sural.
	-4 letters: alls, also, arfs, fall, farl, faro, flus, foal, fora, foul, four, full, furl, furs, lars, loaf, lour, oafs, oars, olla.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-l-l-o-r-s-u"
	+4 letters: cauliflowers, flocculators, sulfonylurea.
	+5 letters: flirtatiously, fluorouracils, metalliferous, sulfonylureas.
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Domain	Definitions
Literature	All Fours A game of cards; so called from the four points that are at stake, viz. High, Low, Jack, and Game. To go on all fours is to crawl about on knees and hands like a little child. It does not go on all fours means it does not suit in every minute particular; it does not fully satisfy the demand. It limps as a quadruped which does not go on all its four legs. Omnis comparatio claudicat (all similes limp). "No simile can go on all-fours." Macaulay. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "all fours": be on all fours with ♦ crawl on all fours ♦ go on all fours ♦ on all fours ♦ run on all fours ♦ to be on all fours ♦ To go all fours ♦ to go on all fours ♦ to run on all fours ♦ walk on all fours. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

All Fours

Definition: All Fours

All Fours

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Literature

Synonym: All Fours

Synonyms within Context: All Fours

Agreement

Facility

Horizontality

Humility

Identity

Prosperity

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Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Expressions: All Fours

Modern Translations: All Fours

Albanian

Arabic

Bulgarian

Czech

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Pig Latin

Romanian

Russian

Scottish

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Turkish

Ukranian

Anagrams: All Fours

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Alternative Orthography: All Fours

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