go on all fours
Example Sentences
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He explained how a person could be constantly tripping over debris and obstructions and at times having to go "on all fours" to try to get through the tunnel.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026
After a moment of scrambling I found that the passage was big enough for me to go on all fours.
From Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield
We have now mammals which lay eggs and, if the news is established, birds also which go on all fours.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
Eudena, watching him with a fearful admiration from the cover of the bracken, saw him presently go on all fours, and so proceed again.
From Tales of Space and Time by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Expressions like to go on all fours, and to eat of the fruit of the tree, are reducible to ellipses.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
