Examples:

• She's kicked me from pillar to post ever since I met her.
• In this inquiry we have heard from victims sent from pillar to post.
• Pushed about from pillar to post by this railway ever since we got on the train.
• No, I truly see you play around, always going from pillar to post.
• Until such time, the Dutch cannot gain any legal advice about complaints, and are sent from pillar to post.
• Passing the hat round and trying to move things from pillar to post is not the model way of doing things.
• The onestopshop principle is a positive thing: the idea that everyone can apply for this permit in one place and that they no longer have to hop from pillar to post because of red tape.
• We need a European coastguard to watch over European interests and to prevent ships in distress from being passed from pillar to post by Member States who put their own interests first and in doing so make the wrong decisions.
• Diplomats spend their whole life going from pillar to post.
• It was high season and we had to go from pillar to post to find a hotel room.