FROM PILLAR TO POST meaning: Shuffled around without clear direction - OneLook

Usually means: Shuffled around without clear direction.

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from pillar to post: Merriam-Webster
from pillar to post: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
from pillar to post: Collins English Dictionary
from pillar to post: Vocabulary.com
from pillar to post: Wordnik
from pillar to post: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
from pillar to post: Wiktionary
from pillar to post: Dictionary.com
From Pillar to Post: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
from pillar to post: Rhymezone
from pillar to post: FreeDictionary.org
from pillar to post: Mnemonic Dictionary
from pillar to post: TheFreeDictionary.com
From pillar to post: World Wide Words

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

from pillar to post: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

from pillar to post: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (from pillar to post)

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

Similar:

hither and thither, back and fore, to and again, to and fro, round and round, about, thrustingly, turn about, upladder, en passant, more...

Opposite:

direct, straightforward, efficient, nonstop

Types:

all over place, everywhere, here and there, hither and yon, far and wide, more...

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Similar:

hither and thither, back and fore, to and again, to and fro, round and round, about, thrustingly, turn about, upladder, en passant, more...

Opposite:

direct, straightforward, efficient, nonstop

Types:

all over place, everywhere, here and there, hither and yon, far and wide, more...

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