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单词 from wig to wall
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from wig to wall
Only in from wig to wall, backwards and forwards, from pillar to post.
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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
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 239 Tossed from poste to piller, from wigge to wall, by a restles course of miseries.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess ii. 99 Mind what this lass has suffer'd now for you,..How she is catcht for you frae wigg to wa.
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) A thing is said to gang frae wyg to waw, when it is moved backwards and forwards from the one wall of a house to the other.
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