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
Then would I go on all fours, O Mishcha, for I am weary of waiting and being far from my brothers, Thumb and Thimble.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
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
“This don’t go on all fours with our map.”
From The Peril Finders by Piffard, Harold
“Because the baboons go on all fours, sir; and I could make out one man standing up as he ran off along the rocky bit of path.”
From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by Boucher, W.
