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 Train, Arthur Cheney

If we must not do our best to pass our friend and brother, we must give up climbing forever, and go on all fours placably with Don and Pontos.

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

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 Dunne, Finley Peter

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)