from pillar to post

Significado (Inglés)

From one place (or person, or task) to another; from post to pillar, hither and thither.

Conceptos

ir de Herodes a Pilatos

Traducciones

Etimología (Inglés)

Possibly originally from post to pillar, perhaps a reference to the rapid movement of the ball in real tennis; The Wordsworth Dictionary of Proverbs (1993) notes that from post to pillar dates to at least the 15th century.

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