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pull up stakes
Idioms and Phrases
Move away, leave one's home, job, or country. For example, We've lived here for years, but now it's time to pull up stakes . This expression alludes to the stakes that mark property boundaries. [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
When Harbaugh pulled up stakes and headed for his new house, he gave Roman a stack of Rockford DVDs for film study.
Wadi Seeq is the sixth Bedouin village to have pulled up stakes in the last year in response to an uptick in settler attacks.
Before J. Robert Oppenheimer pulled up stakes for Los Alamos, he was just another physics professor renting a room in the Berkeley Hills.
About a month ago, Holzer decided to pull up stakes and move back to Billings, Mont., where he lived before moving to Seattle as a child.
Native Angeleno Drew Barrymore pulled up stakes and moved to New York for her girls.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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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