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
Cinnamon had never seen one go on all fours, though that seemed to him as ridiculous as their building houses of chopped trees instead of making holes in the ground.
From Bear Brownie The Life of a Bear by Robinson, H. P.
Now, please, do not require this illustration to go on all fours.
From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Adams, Nehemiah
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
Precedents exist for the abolition of this duel, so completely in point, that, according to the lawyer's phrase, they "go on all fours" with the new case.
From The Duel Between France and Germany by Sumner, Charles
