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Definition: From Pillar To Post |
From Pillar To PostAdverb1. From one place or situation to another; "we were driven from pillar to post". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: From Pillar To PostSynonym: hither and thither (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agitation | Toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post, keep between hawk and buzzard. |
Circuit | Adverb: by a side wind, by an indirect course; in a roundabout way; from pillar to post. |
Difficulty | Reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched, put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's shifts; puzzled, at a loss; (uncertain); at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast, set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out. |
Irresolution | Adverb: irresolutely; Adjective: irresolved, irresolvedly; in faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw. |
Transference | Adverb: from hand to hand, from pillar to post. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: From Pillar To Post |
| Specialty definitions using "from pillar to post": Pillar to Post. (references) |
Expressions using "from pillar to post": drive from post to pillar and from pillar to post ♦ move from post to pillar and from pillar to post. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "from pillar to post"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | dintr-o greutate în alta, încoace şi încolo (back and forth, to and fro). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-l-l-m-o-o-o-p-p-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-5 letters: allotropism, implorators, postillator. | |
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