From pillar to post Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb from one place or situation to another
    hither and thither.
    • we were driven from pillar to post

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Definitions
  1. hither and thither; to and fro; from one place or predicament to another; backward and forward. Colloq.
Definitions
  1. . See under Pillar.

Webster 1913