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on all fours

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on all fours

on one's hands and knees. I dropped a contact lens and spent an hour on all fours looking for it. The baby can walk, but is on all fours most of the time anyway.

See also: all, four, on

on all fours

with both hands and both knees on the ground I got down on all fours to look for her contact lens.

See also: all, four, on

on all fours

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]

See also: all, four, on