set up housekeeping

Idioms and Phrases

Move in together, as in Couples today often set up housekeeping long before they marry . [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

The two might have vowed eternal friendship and set up housekeeping together on a platonic footing.

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After a short stay in their first home, Molire and his wife set up housekeeping in Rue de Richelieu.

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One March a pair of bluebirds decided to set up housekeeping in the trunk of an old apple-tree near my house.

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"Enough to set up housekeeping, if the right sort of things are in them;" and he gave a short laugh.

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When he was married later, he gave him some fine mahogany furniture, from his own home, to set up housekeeping with.

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