from pillar to post
Meaning
From one place (or person, or task) to another; from post to pillar, hither and thither.
Synonyms
Translations
d’un costat a l’altre
vor und zurück
aller-retour
commeo
van hot naar her
para lá e para cá
ir de Herodes a Pilatos aquí i allàEtymology
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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