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on all fours



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Idioms and Phrases

On one's hands and knees, as in Seven of us were on all fours, looking for the lost earring in the sand . In this idiom fours refers to the four limbs. [1300s]
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So it was something of a branding problem when a video appeared on the internet earlier this year showing Halili on all fours wearing a minidress, while several other scantily-clad women dance around her, giggling.

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He crouches on all fours in his silk pajamas like a panther ready to pounce.

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The Durham pair added 37 from 31 balls before Stokes charged at Noman, comically flung his bat into the leg side and was left on all fours as wicketkeeper Muhammad Rizwan removed the bails.

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The man limps out and rubs his face before falling on all fours as the officers drive away.

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“Booty, booty, booty,” my class instructor, DeNae D’Auria, calls out as we, on all fours, donkey kick with a bungee cord over one foot to increase resistance.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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