back-to-all-fours

Updated: September 3, 2025

Nobody pays a proper attention to my ties but you." "I've brought you some beauties from London," said Lydia. Then reverting with a momentary curiosity to the subject they had left, "Whatever does this man do that's so queer?" "Oh, he's just one of the back-to-all-fours faddists," said her father. "Back-to-all-fours?" Lydia was dim as to his meaning, but willing to be amused.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Squirrel-Cage