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
There were many places so steep and stony that they were often obliged to go on all fours, and Klein, who was both weak and nervous, stood in constant danger of his life.
From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Gilson, Charles
No one could disturb him there, for to reach it he had to go on all fours.
From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Cannan, Gilbert
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
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
