from pillar to post
Definition
› 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.Somewhere, anywhere, nowhere, or everywhere
(Definition of from pillar to post from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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