in quest of meaning
- [American idiom]
seeking or hunting something; trying to find something.
• They went into town in quest of a reasonably priced restaurant.
• Monday morning I'll go out in search of a job.
More: Next- he has come in quest of employment.
- you dry up and die in quest of a proof so obscure.
- he saw the men's eyes turning hither and thither in quest of him.
- for two days he had been loafing about the town in quest of the money.
- it is absolutely impossible to let tom go on in this way, riding about in quest of any body.
