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
He would go on all fours snuffling along the gutters for food and when he came to a morsel of offal he would fall upon it and devour it ravenously.
From The Confessions of Artemas Quibble by Arthur Cheney Train
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
Capital is at home now with his gams in a tub iv hot wather; an' whin he comes down to-morrah to oppriss labor an' square his protisted notes, he'll have to go on all fours.
From Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War by Finley Peter Dunne
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
