英语词汇“from pillar to post”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

8. from pillar to post (originally from post to pillar: see post n.¹ Phrases 1): from one person or place of appeal or resource to another; hither and thither; to and fro. Usually implying rejection or harassment. Also attributive in pillar-to-post: that goes from one extreme to another; erratic, haphazard, roundabout. [Apparently originally alluding to the rapid movement of a ball around the court in real tennis. Rhyming constructions with tost or tossed often indicate the presence of this allusion, and appear to have motivated the change in the order of the elements of the phrase.]

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither

hither and thitherc725

here and there1297

from place to placea1398

hitherward and thitherwarda1398

from post to pillarc1500

from pillar to posta1550

from wig to wall1602

hither and yon1787

hither and yond1831

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adjective] > moving hither and thither

fugitive1481

discursive1626

volatile1654

various1725

pillar-to-post1886

a1550 Vox Populi 185 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 274 From piller vnto post The powr man he was tost.

1598 R. Tofte Alba ii. sig. E3^v And though from piller tost he be to poste.

1602 Contention Liberalitie & Prodigalitie ii. iv. sig. C3 Euery minute tost, Like to a tennis ball, from piller to post.

a1626 N. Breton Char. Queen Elizabeth in Wks. (1966) II. 5/1 How was shee handled? tost from piller to post, imprisoned, sought to be put to death.

1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 1 Packt, and wrackt, and lost, and tost, And bounc'd from Pillar unto Post.

1705 P. A. Motteux Amorous Miser ii. i. 20 An Aversion to starving and being drub'd from Pillar to Post by a handly of foul ugly Rogues.

1753 R. North Disc. Poor 35 Then are they sent back, and tost from Pillar to Post in Carts.

1807 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 91 If the several courts could bandy him from pillar to post.

1832 H. Martineau Homes Abroad v. 63 We could not have borne to be..driven from pillar to post.

1886 G. Saintsbury in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 416/2 The inveterate habit of pillar-to-post joking.

1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. i. 6 Here have I been knocking about..from pillar to post.

1919 Outing Mar. 340/2 It was the old story of a life of hard knocks, of being shoved from pillar to post.

1997 Sun 30 Jan. 41/1 Deane was shoved from pillar to post by previous boss Howard Wilkinson.

单词	from pillar to post
释义	> as lemmas from pillar to post 8. from pillar to post (originally from post to pillar: see post n.¹ Phrases 1): from one person or place of appeal or resource to another; hither and thither; to and fro. Usually implying rejection or harassment. Also attributive in pillar-to-post: that goes from one extreme to another; erratic, haphazard, roundabout. [Apparently originally alluding to the rapid movement of a ball around the court in real tennis. Rhyming constructions with tost or tossed often indicate the presence of this allusion, and appear to have motivated the change in the order of the elements of the phrase.] ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [phrase] > hither and thither hither and thitherc725 here and there1297 from place to placea1398 hitherward and thitherwarda1398 from post to pillarc1500 from pillar to posta1550 from wig to wall1602 hither and yon1787 hither and yond1831 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [adjective] > moving hither and thither fugitive1481 discursive1626 volatile1654 various1725 pillar-to-post1886 a1550 Vox Populi 185 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) III. 274 From piller vnto post The powr man he was tost. 1598 R. Tofte Alba ii. sig. E3^v And though from piller tost he be to poste. 1602 Contention Liberalitie & Prodigalitie ii. iv. sig. C3 Euery minute tost, Like to a tennis ball, from piller to post. a1626 N. Breton Char. Queen Elizabeth in Wks. (1966) II. 5/1 How was shee handled? tost from piller to post, imprisoned, sought to be put to death. 1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 1 Packt, and wrackt, and lost, and tost, And bounc'd from Pillar unto Post. 1705 P. A. Motteux Amorous Miser ii. i. 20 An Aversion to starving and being drub'd from Pillar to Post by a handly of foul ugly Rogues. 1753 R. North Disc. Poor 35 Then are they sent back, and tost from Pillar to Post in Carts. 1807 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 91 If the several courts could bandy him from pillar to post. 1832 H. Martineau Homes Abroad v. 63 We could not have borne to be..driven from pillar to post. 1886 G. Saintsbury in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 416/2 The inveterate habit of pillar-to-post joking. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. i. 6 Here have I been knocking about..from pillar to post. 1919 Outing Mar. 340/2 It was the old story of a life of hard knocks, of being shoved from pillar to post. 1997 Sun 30 Jan. 41/1 Deane was shoved from pillar to post by previous boss Howard Wilkinson. extracted from pillarn. < as lemmas
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