from pillar to post

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pil·lar

(pĭl′ər)

a. A slender, freestanding, vertical support; a column.

b. Such a structure or one similar to it used for decoration.

2. One who occupies a central or responsible position: a pillar of the state.

tr.v. pil·lared, pil·lar·ing, pil·lars

To support or decorate with pillars or a pillar.

Idiom:

from pillar to post

From one place to another; hither and thither.

[Middle English, from Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin pīlāre, from Latin pīla.]

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from pillar to post - from one place or situation to another; "we were driven from pillar to post"

hither and thither

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"And here have I been knocking about, year after year, from pillar to post, as if I was no more than the commonest feller in the parish....And how long hev this news about me been knowed, Pa'son Tringham?"

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We just get fired around from pillar to post and get licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows what it's done for.

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At any rate, during the period of Lop-Ear's marriage I knocked about from pillar to post, in danger every night that I slept, and never comfortable.

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"Why, the man was so badgered and worried and tortured by being knocked about from post to pillar, and from pillar to post," said Mr.

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The protesters said the government had not advertised jobs in their field for quite some time while hundreds of pharmacists having relevant educational degrees were running from pillar to post to get a job.

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One woman was able to have her complaint registered, the other is running from pillar to post.

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AS A parent of an addict, I have tried over and over to get help for my daughter but I am being pushed from pillar to post.

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The crowd of thousands of locusts has attacked on the prepared yield in the village Chak 219 of Rahim Yar Khan district , after which the agriculture department ran from pillar to post to save the crops and began spray on war footing basis for continuous three days .

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The affected persons told media that they are running from pillar to post, but no treatment drugs are provided to them.

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He said that scholarship holders were running from pillar to post to get the scholarship amount but to no avail.

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OXFORD United boss Karl Robinson accused Coventry City of 'kicking his players from pillar to post' in Sunday's televised League One match at the Kassam Stadium.

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But these decisions were not implemented, leaving employees wandering from pillar to post and post to pillar to get their services regularized.