be driven from pillar to post
be pushed from pillar to post

Grampa Jack McCarthy had told the story many a time, always ending: "'Tis the fate of the Irish always to be driven from pillar to post."

After the assassination of President McKinley in 1901, the anarchist groups were raided by the police, and Ciancabilla was driven from pillar to post, arrested, manhandled, and evicted.

I am driven from pillar to post and hurried up and down, sometimes with stencil-plate and paste-brush to defile the fences with cabalistic legends, and sometimes in grotesque and extravagant character at the behest of some driving journal.

Many have been homeless, not just for the past six months but for several years and they have been pushed from pillar to post within that area.

The boy had been pushed from pillar to post, from his own world into life on a freighter, then in tragedy to the inner circle of a military machine.

But instead of celebrating, James felt miserable at the way he felt he was being pushed from pillar to post as his record company tried to mould him into something marketable, forcing him into collaborations with all the "right" songwriters and producers.

Usual wrangle at the border; hour after hour of messing about being pushed from pillar to post until eventually I am ushered into Kazakhstan and ten minutes later fall into the arms of the local traffic cops, where the whole palaver is repeated.