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Definition of From pillar to post
1. Adverb. From one place or situation to another. "We were driven from pillar to post"
Definition of From pillar to post
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) From one place (or person, or task) to another; hither and thither ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of From Pillar To Post
Literary usage of From pillar to post
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"Homesickness — Driven from Pillar to Post —Fate of the Pawnees — Frightful
Mortality — The "Policy" that Drives Indians to Desperation— The Only Misfortune ..."
2. Peerless Alaska, Our Cache Near the Pole by Charles Hallock, George G. Cantwell (1908)
"The Pole may shift in its secular progression, and the persistent Peary chase it
from pillar to post across the ice pack and into the ice blink until his ..."
3. Later Leaves: Being the Further Reminiscences of Montagu Williams by Montagu Stephen Williams (1891)
"... from pillar to post—Death of the little starveling—An attempt to relieve the
rates. I WAS counsel in the only case of high treason that occurred during ..."
4. Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals, and Man by Ralph Nevill, Charles Edward Jerningham (1909)
"... adhering to the methods of other days, is hounded about from pillar to post.
Puritan persecution is powerless to affect a class most of whom are, ..."
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