from pillar to post
If someone goes from pillar to post, they are forced to keep moving from one place to another:
My parents were always on the move and so my childhood was spent being dragged from pillar to post.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Somewhere, anywhere, nowhere, or everywhere
- across
- all over somewhere idiom
- all over the place idiom
- anyplace
- anywhere
- every
- from top to bottom idiom
- from top to toe idiom
- high
- hunt/search high and low idiom
- length
- nook
- noplace
- place
- somewhere
- the length and breadth of somewhere idiom
- throughout
- turn
- ubiquitous
- ubiquity
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