send someone from pillar to post
send (one) from pillar to post
To instruct or direct one to travel from place to place, especially in a futile, indeterminate, or impermanent manner. They've been sending me from pillar to post looking for the right replacement part, but nowhere seems to have it. He's been sent from pillar to post for his work. I wish they would give him a break from so much travel.
See also: pillar, post, send
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
send someone from pillar to post
tv. to send someone from place to place; to give someone the runaround. Red tape everywhere I went. They sent me from pillar to post until closing time.
See also: pillar, post, send, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- be driven, pushed, etc. from pillar to post
- be pushed from pillar to post
- ditch (some place)
- from pillar to post
- defect to
- defect to (something)
- Mecca for
- have a foothold
- have a foothold in (something)
- barrel in