Idiom/Phrase: From pillar to post
- (a)Upside down
- (b)Keep moving from one place to another
- (c)Constructing a huge building
- (d)Jumping from the top of the mountain
Answer
B
Why
Correct — B, keep moving from one place to another. 'From pillar to post' means being driven or forced from one place or situation to another, usually without result and to one's frustration.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)Upside down — Unrelated — the idiom is about being shuttled around, not orientation or disorder.
- (c)Constructing a huge building — Takes 'pillar' and 'post' literally as building parts, missing the figurative meaning.
- (d)Jumping from the top of the mountain — Unrelated to the sense of being moved repeatedly between places.
Concept
An idiom-meaning item — 'from pillar to post' means being moved repeatedly from one place to another, often fruitlessly.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
'Run around in circles' means to:
- (a)make steady progress
- (b)be busy without achieving anything
- (c)travel widely for pleasure
- (d)exercise every day
Answer(b) be busy without achieving anything — effort with no result.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Being sent from one office to another with no result best matches which idiom?
- (a)from pillar to post
- (b)at the eleventh hour
- (c)over the moon
- (d)under the weather
Answer(a) from pillar to post — moved repeatedly with nothing achieved.