| 词汇 | from pillar to post |
| 释义 | Idiom from pillar to post Theme: EVERYWHERE from one place to a series of other places; (figuratively) from person to person, as with gossip.My father was in the army, and we moved from pillar to post year after year.After I told one person my secret, it went quickly from pillar to post. Idiom from pillar to post British & Australian if someone goes from pillar to post, they are forced to keep moving from one place to another.After his mother died, Billy was passed from pillar to post and ended up in a children's home. from pillar to postFrom place to place. We've been going from pillar to post for the past five years. Can't we finally settle down here? from pillar to postFig. from one place to a series of other places; (figuratively) from person to person, as with gossip. My father was in the army, and we moved from pillar to post year after year. After I told one person my secret, it went quickly from pillar to post. from pillar to postFrom 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. from pillar to postmainly BRITISHIf someone is moved from pillar to post, they are moved repeatedly from one place or position to another. We are exhausted after a weekend of being shoved from pillar to post. I didn't want the children pushed from pillar to post. Note: This expression comes from an early form of tennis that was played indoors. Players often played shots back and forth across the court, from the posts supporting the net to the pillars at the back of the court. from pillar to postfrom one place to another in an unceremonious or fruitless manner.This expression may have developed with reference to the rebounding of a ball in a real-tennis court. It has been in use in this form since the mid 16th century, though its earlier form, from post to pillar , dates back to the early 15th century. 2002 Independent There will be ‘a single door to knock on’ so people with a point to make are not passed endlessly from pillar to post. from pillar to post From one place to another; hither and thither. from pillar to postFrom one place or thing to another; hither and yon. This expression, which originally (fifteenth century) was from post to pillar, is believed by some to come from the old game of court tennis and to allude to the banging about of balls in a sport that had much looser rules than present-day lawn tennis. Another theory is that the term originally meant from whipping-post to pillory (punishment to hanging), which would better account for the original order. It first appeared in John Lydgate’s The Assembly of Gods (ca. 1420). Dickens (Bleak House, 1853) used both the old and the new versions: “So badgered, and worried, and tortured, by being knocked about from post to pillar, and from pillar to post.” |
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