FROM PILLAR TO POST Definition & Meaning

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from pillar to post

From one place or thing to another in rapid succession: “Abernathy couldn't stick to one project and was always dashing from pillar to post.”

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Idioms and Phrases

From one thing or place to another, hither and thither. For example, After Kevin joined the Air Force, the family kept moving from pillar to post. This expression began life in the early 1400s as from post to pillar, an order no longer used, and is thought to allude to the banging about of a ball in the game of court tennis.

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He added the number of parties involved could be "depressing for a shared owner; that feeling of being passed from pillar to post and being fobbed off at different parts of the process".

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"Their voices are not being heard - they are being thrown from pillar to post around all the different organisations but nobody is actually listening to what is happening to them," she said.

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For too long, she argued, they had been "pushed from pillar to post between local authorities, mental health services, the police and youth offending teams".

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"All I was met with was closed doors and passed from pillar to post," says Ms Whiting.

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"It was long and I was passed from pillar to post," he said.

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