from pillar to post
A tennis player serveserving the ball. The term from pillar to post may have originated from real tennis, the predecessor of the modern game of tennis.
Meaning
Adverb
- From one place (or person, or task) to another; from post to pillar, hither and thither.
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Origin
- Possibly originally from post to pillar, perhaps a reference to the rapid movement of the ball in real tennis; The Wordsworth Dictionary of Proverbs (1993) notes that from post to pillar dates to at least the 15th century.
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