from pillar to post

1. 1.

   from one place or situation to another

   “we were driven from pillar to post”

   Synonymshither and thither

Questions about from pillar to post

What does from pillar to post mean?

from pillar to post means "from one place or situation to another".

What is another word for from pillar to post?

Close synonyms include hither and thither. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is from pillar to post a common word?

from pillar to post is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.